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Moreover Rut the Mo'avite, the wife of Machlon, have I 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.
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All the people who were in the gate, and the Zakenim, said, We are witnesses. The LORD make the woman who has come into your house like Rachel and like Le'ah, which two built the house of Yisra'el: and do you worthily in Efratah, and be famous in Beit-Lechem:
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and let your house be like the house of Peretz, whom Tamar bore to Yehudah, of the seed which the LORD shall give you of this young woman.
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So Bo`az took Rut, and she became his wife; and he went in to her, and the LORD gave her conception, and she bore a son.
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The women said to Na`omi, Blessed be the LORD, who has not left you this day without a near kinsman; and let his name be famous in Yisra'el.
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He shall be to you a restorer of life, and sustain you in your old age, for your daughter-in-law, who loves you, who is better to you than seven sons, has borne him.
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Na`omi took the child, and laid it in her bosom, and became nurse to it.
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The women her neighbors gave it a name, saying, There is a son born to Na`omi; and they named him `Oved: he is the father of Yishai, the father of David.
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Now this is the history of the generations of Peretz: Peretz became the father of Hetzron,
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and Hetzron became the father of Ram, and Ram became the father of `Amminadav,
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and `Amminadav became the father of Nachshon, and Nachshon became the father of Salmon,