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Ruth 4:9-11
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Ruth 4:9-11
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9 Then Boaz said to the witnesses and to the crowd standing around, “You have seen that today I have bought all the property of Elimelech, Chilion, and Mahlon, from Naomi, 10 and that with it I have purchased Ruth the Moabitess, the widow of Mahlon, to be my wife, so that she can have a son to carry on the family name of her dead husband.”
11 And all the people standing there and the witnesses replied, “We are witnesses. May the Lord make this woman, who has now come into your home, as fertile as Rachel and Leah, from whom all the nation of Israel descended! May you be a great and successful man in Bethlehem,
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Ruth 4:9-11
New International Version
Ruth 4:9-11
New International Version
9 Then Boaz announced to the elders and all the people, “Today you are witnesses(A) that I have bought from Naomi all the property of Elimelek, Kilion and Mahlon. 10 I have also acquired Ruth the Moabite,(B) Mahlon’s widow, as my wife,(C) in order to maintain the name of the dead with his property, so that his name will not disappear from among his family or from his hometown.(D) Today you are witnesses!(E)”
11 Then the elders and all the people at the gate(F) said, “We are witnesses.(G) May the Lord make the woman who is coming into your home like Rachel and Leah,(H) who together built up the family of Israel. May you have standing in Ephrathah(I) and be famous in Bethlehem.(J)
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