Comment) and by his public announcement that formally executes the transfer (4:9–10, a “performative” utterance, “I hereby acquire …”; see Comment), calling on the legal assembly to notarize the transaction. That actions immediately followed his words is a foregone conclusion, confirmed by the narrator’s succinct summary introducing the next scene (4:13). In contrast to Mr. So-and-So’s refusal to act beyond the demands of proper self-interest, the selfless generosity of Boaz expressed in the fullness