¹² But now, though it is true that I am a near kinsman, there is another kinsman more closely related than I.^(A)

²⁰ Then Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, “Blessed be he by the Lord, whose kindness has not forsaken the living or the dead!” Naomi also said to her, “The man is a relative of ours, one of our nearest kin.”^[a](A)