¹⁶ Naomi took the child and held him to her breast, and she became his guardian. ¹⁷ The neighborhood women gave him a name, saying, “A son has been born to Naomi.” They called his name Obed.^[a] He became Jesse’s father and David’s grandfather.

¹⁸ These are the generations of Perez: Perez became the father of Hezron,