Moreover Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, have I purchased to be my wife, to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance, that the name of the dead be not cut off from among his brethren, and from the gate of his place: ye are witnesses this day.
and þat Y haue take in to wedlok Ruth of Moab, þe wijf of Maalon, þat Y reise þe name of þe deed man in his erytage; lest his name be doon awey fro his meynee and briþeren and puple. Ye, he seide, ben witnessis of this thing.