10 Also Ruth the Moabite, the widow of Mahlon, I have bought to be my wife, (A)to perpetuate the name of the dead in his inheritance, that the name of the dead may not be cut off from among his brothers and from the gate of his native place. You are witnesses this day.” 11 Then all the people who were (B)at the gate and the elders said, “We are witnesses. May the Lord make the woman, who is coming into your house, like Rachel and Leah, (C)who together (D)built up the house of Israel. May you act worthily in (E)Ephrathah and (F)be renowned in Bethlehem, 12 and may your house be like the house of Perez, (G)whom Tamar bore to Judah, because (H)of the offspring that the Lord will give you by this young woman.”

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