Ruth 4:16 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

¹⁶ And Na-o´mi took the child, and laid it in her bosom, and became nurse unto it.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ And Naomi took the child, and laid it in her bosom, and became nurse unto it.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ Then Naomi took the child and laid him in her bosom and became his nurse.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ And Naomi took the child, and laid it in her bosom, and became nurse unto it.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ Naomi took the child and held him to her breast, and she became his guardian.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ And taking up the boy, Naomi placed him on her bosom, and she took on the duties of carrying him and nursing him.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁶ And Noemi taking the child laid it in her bosom, and she carried it, and was a nurse unto it.

Ruth 4:16 Cross References

Ruth 4:15

And he shall be unto thee a restorer of thy life, and a nourisher of thine old age: for thy daughter-in-law, which loveth thee, which is better to thee than seven sons, hath borne him.

Ruth 4:17

And the women her neighbors gave it a name, saying, There is a son born to Na-o´mi; and they called his name Obed: he is the father of Jesse, the father of David.