And they approached the village where they were going,

and He acted as though He were going farther.

But they urged Him, saying,

“Stay with us, for it is getting toward evening,

and the day is now nearly over.”

So He went in to stay with them.

Now this was the custom in former times in Israel

concerning the redemption

and the exchange of land

to confirm any matter:

a man removed his sandal and gave it to another;

and this was the manner of attestation in Israel.

Now Boaz went up to the gate and sat down there,

and behold, the close relative of whom Boaz spoke was passing by, so he said,

“Turn aside, friend, sit down here.”

And he turned aside and sat down.

He took ten men of the elders of the city and said,

“Sit down here.”

So they sat down.

Then Naomi her mother-in-law said to her,

“My daughter, shall I not seek security for you,

that it may be well with you?

Now is not Boaz our kinsman, with whose maids you were?

Behold, he winnows barley at the threshing floor tonight.

Wash yourself therefore,

and anoint yourself

and put on your best clothes,

and go down to the threshing floor;

but do not make yourself known to the man

until he has finished eating and drinking.

It shall be when he lies down,

that you shall notice the place where he lies,

and you shall go and uncover his feetand lie down;

then he will tell you what you shall do.”

She said to her,

“All that you say I will do.”

Now it came about in the days when the judges governed,

that there was a famine in the land.

And a certain man of Bethlehem in Judah went to sojourn

in the land of Moab with his wife and his two sons.

Now it came about after the death of Moses the servant of the LORD,

that the LORD spoke to Joshua the son of Nun, Moses’ servant, saying,

“Moses My servant is dead;

now therefore arise, cross this Jordan, you and all this people,

to the land which I am giving to them, to the sons of Israel.

Therefore, come now,

and I will send you to Pharaoh,

so that you may bring My people, the sons of Israel, out of Egypt.”

But Moses said to God,

“Who am I, that I should go to Pharaoh,

and that I should bring the sons of Israel out of Egypt?”

And He said,

“Certainly I will be with you,

and this shall be the sign to you that it is I who have sent you:

when you have brought the people out of Egypt,

you shall worship God at this mountain.”

Then Moses said to God,

“Behold, I am going to the sons of Israel, and I will say to them,

‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you.’

Now they may say to me, ‘What is His name?’

What shall I say to them?”

God said to Moses,

“ I AM WHO I AM”;

and He said,

“Thus you shall say to the sons of Israel, ‘I AM has sent me to you.’”

Then beginning with Moses and with all the prophets,

He explained to them the things concerning Himself in all the Scriptures.

And behold, two of them were going that very day to a village named Emmaus,

which was about seven miles from Jerusalem.

And they were talking with each other

about all these things which had taken place.

After Jesus was born, His earthly parents were careful to obey the Laws of Leviticus 12.

Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

“Speak to the sons of Israel, saying:

‘When a woman gives birth and bears a male child,

then she shall be unclean for seven days,

as in the days of her menstruation she shall be unclean.

On the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.