Then Boaz said to the elders and to the standing crowd standing around, “You are the witnesses that today I have bought from Naomi all the property of Elimelech, Killion, and Mahlon. And with that landI have acquired Ruth, Moabite widow of Mahlon, to be my wife. This way she can have a son to carry on the family name of her dead husband and to inherit the family property here in his hometown. You are all witnesses today.”
The elders and all the people standing in the gate replied, “We are witnesses! May the Lord make this woman who is coming to your home like Rachel and Leah, from whom all the nation of Israel descended! May you prosper in Ephreathah and be famous in Bethlehem. An may the Lord give you descendants by this young woman who will be like those of our ancestor Perez, the son of Tamar and Judah.” (vv. 9-12, NLT)