¹⁰ I have also acquired Ruth the Moabite,^(A) Mahlon’s widow, as my wife,^(B) 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.^(C) Today you are witnesses!^(D)”

¹¹ Then the elders and all the people at the gate^(E) said, “We are witnesses.^(F) May the Lord make the woman who is coming into your home like Rachel and Leah,^(G) who together built up the family of Israel. May you have standing in Ephrathah^(H) and be famous in Bethlehem.^{(I) 12} Through the offspring the Lord gives you by this young woman, may your family be like that of Perez,^(J) whom Tamar^(K) bore to Judah.”