¹¹ All the people who were at the city gate, including the elders, said, “We are witnesses. May the Lord make the woman who is entering your house like Rachel and Leah,^(A) who together built the house of Israel. May you be powerful in Ephrathah and your name well known in Bethlehem.

¹² May your house become like the house of Perez, the son Tamar bore to Judah,^(A) because of the offspring the Lord will give you by this young woman.”