Ruth 4:12-14

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

¹² and may your house be like the house of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah, because of the children that the Lord will give you by this young woman.”

The Genealogy of David

¹³ So Bo′az took Ruth and she became his wife; and he went in to her, and the Lord gave her conception, and she bore a son. ¹⁴ Then the women said to Na′omi, “Blessed be the Lord, who has not left you this day without next of kin; and may his name be renowned in Israel!