Rut 4:8 | NET2full | STEP | So the guardian said to Boaz , “You may acquire it,” and he removed his sandal .

Ruth 4:8

8 So the guardian said to Boaz, “You may acquire it,” and he removed his sandal. ^{▼▼tc The LXX adds “and gave it to him” (cf. TEV, CEV), which presupposes the reading ויתן לו. This seems to be a clarifying addition (see v. 7), but it is possible the scribe’s eye jumped from the final ו (vav) on נַעֲלוֹ (naʿalo, “his sandal”) to the final ו (vav) on לוֹ (lo, “to him”), accidentally omitting the intervening letters.}