¹⁰ I have also acquired Ruth the Moabitess, Mahlon’s widow, as my wife, to perpetuate the deceased man’s name on his property, so that his name will not disappear among his relatives or from the gate of his hometown. You are witnesses today.”

²¹ Therefore swear to me by the Lord that you will not cut off my descendants or wipe out my name from my father’s family.”^(A)