Ruth 4:4 Cross References - NSB

⁴ »I am giving you a chance to take it with the approval of those seated here, the responsible men of my people. If you are ready to do what it is right for a relative to do, then do it. If you will not do it, say so to me now. There is no one who has the right to do it but you, and after you, myself.« And he said: »I will do it.«

¹⁸ His property included the field with the cave in it as well as all the trees inside the boundaries of the field. The Hittites together with all who had entered the city gate were the official witnesses for the agreement.

²⁵ »‘If any of you Israelites become so poor that you are forced to sell your property, your closest relative must buy it back. ²⁶ »‘If that relative has the money. Later, if you can afford to buy it, ²⁷ you must pay enough to make up for what the present owner will lose on it before the next Year of Celebration, when the property would become yours again. ²⁸ »‘If he cannot earn enough to buy it back, what he sold stays in the hands of the buyer until the year of jubilee. In the jubilee it will be released, and he will own it again. ²⁹ »‘If anyone sells a home in a walled city, for one year after selling it he has the right to buy it back. He may buy it back only within that time.

⁷ ‘Hanamel the son of Shallum your uncle is coming to you. He says: »Buy for yourself my field at Anathoth, for you have the right of redemption to buy it.’« ⁸ »Then Hanamel my uncle's son came to me in the court of the guard according to the word of Jehovah and said to me: ‘Buy my field, please, that is at Anathoth, which is in the land of Benjamin. You have the right of possession and the redemption is yours. Buy it for yourself.’ »Then I knew that this was the word of Jehovah. ⁹ »I bought the field at Anathoth from Hanamel my uncle's son. I weighed out the silver for him, seventeen shekels of silver. ¹⁰ »I signed and sealed the deed, and called in witnesses, and weighed out the silver on the scales. ¹¹ »I took the deeds of purchase, both the sealed copy containing the terms and conditions and the open copy. ¹² »I gave the deed of purchase to Baruch the son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, in the sight of Hanamel my uncle's son and in the sight of the witnesses who signed the deed of purchase, before all the Jews who were sitting in the court of the guard.

²⁵ »Yet you, Lord Jehovah, told me to buy a field with money and get witnesses to confirm it, although the city was handed over to the Babylonians.«

¹⁷ Return evil for evil to no man. Provide honest things in the sight of all men.

²¹ for we think of honorable things, not only in the sight of God, but also in the sight of men.

⁸ Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report; if there is any virtue, and if there is any praise, think about these things.