²² So Joshua said to the people, “You are witnesses against yourselves that ^(A)you have chosen the Lord for yourselves, to serve Him.”

And they said, “We are witnesses!”

⁹ And Boaz said to the elders and all the people, “You are witnesses this day that I have bought all that was Elimelech’s, and all that was Chilion’s and Mahlon’s, from the hand of Naomi.

¹⁰ And I signed the ^[a]deed and sealed it, took witnesses, and weighed the money on the scales.

¹² and I gave the purchase deed to ^(A)Baruch the son of Neriah, son of Mahseiah, in the presence of Hanamel my uncle’s son, and in the presence of the ^(B)witnesses who signed the purchase deed, before all the Jews who sat in the court of the prison.

²⁵ And You have said to me, O Lord God, “Buy the field for money, and take witnesses”!—yet the city has been given into the hand of the Chaldeans.’ ”

⁴⁴ Men will buy fields for money, sign deeds and seal them, and take witnesses, in ^(A)the land of Benjamin, in the places around Jerusalem, in the cities of Judah, in the cities of the mountains, in the cities of the ^[a]lowland, and in the cities of the ^[b]South; for ^(B)I will cause their captives to return,’ says the Lord.”