Ruth 4:10-12

Evangelical Heritage Version

¹⁰ Furthermore, Ruth the Moabite, the wife of Mahlon, I have acquired for myself as a wife, in order to perpetuate the name of the deceased on his inheritance, so that the name of the deceased shall not be cut off from his brothers and from the city gate of his place. You are witnesses today.”

¹¹ Then all the people and the elders who were in the gatehouse said, “We are witnesses! May the Lord make the woman who is coming into your household like Rachel and like Leah, the two women who built the house of Israel, so that you prosper in Ephrathah and become famous in Bethlehem. ¹² May your house become like the house of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah, through the seed^[a] whom the Lord will give to you from this young woman.”