15 May he also be to you a restorer of life and a sustainer of your old age; for your daughter-in-law, who loves you [a](A)and is better to you than seven sons, has given birth to him.”

The Line of David Began Here

16 Then Naomi took the child [b]and laid him in her lap, and became his nurse. 17 The neighbor women gave him a name, saying, “A son has been born to Naomi!” So they named him Obed. He is the father of Jesse, the father of David.

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Footnotes

  1. Ruth 4:15 Lit who
  2. Ruth 4:16 I.e. as her own