Boaz talks to the other relative who has a claim to Ruth but he is not interested. So Boaz does what any good man would do... he buys Elimelek's property. He buys his land and the women are thrown in, so Ruth is now his wife.
If you're reading along, did you read verse 7? "Now in earlier times in Israel, for the redemption and transfer of property to become final, one party took off his sandal and gave it to the other. This is was the method of legalizing transactions in Israel."
They must have had a lot of sandals. Imagine if you had to give a sandal everytime you bought something on eBay.
So he gives his sandal and gets a wife. Sandals are so much cheaper than rings!
Then they have a son, Obed, who goes on to be David's grandfather, and a descendent of Joseph, Jesus' father.
I wonder if David ever asked how his great grandparents met? Then again he did steal Bathsheba, so maybe he wasn't the romantic type.
So what does this all mean? What's the point of this story?
Be careful where you get drunk, you might lose a sandal.
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