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Ruth 4:1-10
Ruth waited, Boaz confronted, and the nearer kinsman
declined.
But why? Why was Boaz, the near kinsman, able to
redeem, where the nearer one could not?
Quickly assessing the opportunity, this closer
relative realized having Ruth for a wife, would ruin his inheritance. He would be
spending his own money to purchase something his children would not inherit.
Elimelech’s field would accede to the child he fathered for Mahlon, and he was
unable or unwilling to share his inheritance.
Therefore, today we come to the most important
lesson of this series.