knowing that you were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from the useless way of life handed down from your fathers, but with precious blood, as of a faultless and pure lamb, the blood of Christ;
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In contrast to (this verse)Ruth 4:10
Ruth was bought with a legal transaction at the gate, but Peter says we were redeemed not with silver or gold 'but with precious blood, as of a faultless and pure lamb.'
“Moreover Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, I have purchased to be my wife, to raise up the name of the dead on his inheritance, that the name of the dead not be cut off from among his brothers, and from the gate of his place. You are witnesses this day.””