Ruth 4:10-12

Contemporary English Version

^10 (A) You are also witnesses that I have agreed to marry Mahlon's widow Ruth, the Moabite woman. This will keep the property in his family's name, and he will be remembered in this town.

^11 (B) The town leaders and the others standing there said:

We are witnesses to this. And we pray that the Lord will give your wife many children, just as he did Leah and Rachel, the wives of Jacob. May you be a rich man in the tribe of Ephrath and an important man in Bethlehem. ^12 (C) May the children you have by this young woman make your family as famous as the family of Perez,^[a] the son of Tamar and Judah.