Ruth 4:12 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹² and may your house be like the house of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah, because of the children that the Lord will give you by this young woman.”

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² and let thy house be like the house of Pharez, whom Tamar bare unto Judah, of the seed which the LORD shall give thee of this young woman.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² And let your house be like the house of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah, because of the offspring which the Lord will give you by this young woman.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² and let thy house be like the house of Perez, whom Tamar bare unto Judah, of the seed which Jehovah shall give thee of this young woman.

Common English Bible

¹² And may your household be like the household of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah—through the children that the LORD will give you from this young woman.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² And may your house be like the house of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah, of the offspring which the Lord will give to you from this young woman."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹² And that the house may be, as the house of Phares, whom Thamar bore unto Juda, of the seed which the Lord shall give thee of this young woman.

Ruth 4:12 Cross References

Genesis 38:29

But as he drew back his hand, behold, his brother came out; and she said, “What a breach you have made for yourself!” Therefore his name was called Perez.

Genesis 46:12

The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah (but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan); and the sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul.

1 Chronicles 2:4

His daughter-in-law Tamar also bore him Perez and Zerah. Judah had five sons in all.

Malachi 2:15

Has not the one God made and sustained for us the spirit of life? And what does he desire? Godly offspring. So take heed to yourselves, and let none be faithless to the wife of his youth.

Matthew 1:3

and Judah the father of Perez and Zerah by Tamar, and Perez the father of Hezron, and Hezron the father of Ram,

Ruth 4:18

Now these are the descendants of Perez: Perez was the father of Hezron,

1 Samuel 2:20

Then Eli would bless Elkanah and his wife, and say, “The Lord give you children by this woman for the loan which she lent to the Lord”; so then they would return to their home.