Ruth 4:11 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

¹¹ 6 And Noemi taking the child laid it in her bosom, and she carried it, and was a nurse unto it.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹¹ And all the people that were in the gate, and the elders, said, We are witnesses. The LORD make the woman that is come into thine house like Rachel and like Leah, which two did build the house of Israel: and do thou worthily in Ephratah, and be famous in Beth-lehem:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹¹ And all the people 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, the two who built the household of Israel. May you do worthily and get wealth (power) in Ephratah and be famous in Bethlehem.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹¹ And all the people that were in the gate, and the elders, said, We are witnesses. Jehovah make the woman that is come into thy house like Rachel and like Leah, which two did build the house of Israel: and do thou worthily in Ephrathah, and be famous in Beth-lehem:

Common English Bible

¹¹ Then all the people who were at the gate and the elders said, “We are witnesses. May the LORD grant that the woman who is coming into your household be like Rachel and like Leah, both of whom built up the house of Israel. May you be fertile in Ephrathah and may you preserve a name in Bethlehem.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹¹ All the people who were at the gate, along with the eldest, answered, "We are witnesses. May the Lord make this woman, who enters into your house, like Rachel, and Leah, who built up the house of Israel, so that she may be an example of virtue in Ephrathah, and so that her name may be honored in Bethlehem.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹¹ Then all the people that were in the gate, and the ancients answered: We are witnesses. The Lord make this woman who cometh into thy house, like Rachel, and Lia, who built up the house of Israel: that she may be an example of virtue in Ephrata, and may have a famous name in Bethlehem.

Ruth 4:11 Cross References

Genesis 23:10

0 Now Ephron dwelt in the midst of the children of Heth. And Ephron made answer to Abraham in the hearing of all that went in at the gate of the city, saying:

Genesis 24:60

0 Wishing prosperity to their sister, and saying: Thou art our sister, mayst thou increase to thousands of thousands, and may thy seed possess the gates of their enemies.

Genesis 29:16

7 But Lia was blear eyed: Rachel was well favoured, and of a beautiful countenance.

Genesis 29:25

6 Laban answered: It is not the custom in this place, to give the younger in marriage first.

Genesis 29:32

3 And again she conceived and bore a son, and said: Because the Lord heard that I was despised, he hath given this also to me: and she called his name Simeon.

Genesis 35:23

4 The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.

Genesis 35:24

5 The sons of Bala, Rachel's handmaid: Dan and Naphthali.

1 Kings 21:8

3 And bringing two men, sons of the devil, they made them sit against him: and they, like men of the devil, bore witness against him before the people, saying: Naboth hath blasphemed God and the king: wherefore they brought him forth without the city, and stoned him to death.

1 Chronicles 2:51

Now these were the sons of David that were born to him in Hebron: the firstborn Amnon of Achinoam the Jezrahelitess, the second Daniel of Abigail the Carmelitess.

Psalm 132:6

3 For the Lord hath chosen Sion: he hath chosen it for his dwelling.

Proverbs 14:1

The wisdom of a. discreet man is to understand his way: and the imprudence of fools erreth.

Proverbs 31:23

0 Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: the woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised.

Jeremiah 32:10

8 Thou shewest mercy unto thousands, and returnest the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their children after them: O most mighty, great, and powerful, the Lord of hosts is thy name.

Micah 5:2

0 And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord, that I will take away thy horses out of the midst of thee, and will destroy thy chariots.

Matthew 2:6

4 Who arose, and took the child and his mother by night, and retired into Egypt: and he was there until the death of Herod:

Deuteronomy 25:7

2 Thou shalt cut off her hand, neither shalt thou be moved with any pity in her regard.

Deuteronomy 25:9

4 Neither shall there be in thy house a greater bushel and a less.

Ruth 1:2

Wherefore she went forth out of the place of her sojournment, with both her daughters in law: and being now in the way to return into the land of Juda,