Ruth 4:11 - The Scriptures 1998

¹¹ And all the people who were at the gate, and the elders, said, “Witnesses! יהוה  make the woman who is coming to your house as Raḥ

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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.

Ruth 4:11 Cross References

Genesis 23:10

And Ephron dwelt among the sons of Ḥ

Genesis 24:60

And they blessed Riḇ

Genesis 29:16

And Laḇ

Genesis 29:25

And in the morning it came to be, that see, it was Lĕ

Genesis 29:32

And Lĕ

Genesis 35:23

the sons of Lĕ

Genesis 35:24

the sons of Raḥ

1 Kings 21:8

Then she wrote letters in Aḥ

1 Chronicles 2:51

Salma the father of Bĕ

Psalm 132:6

See, we heard of it in Ephrathah; We found it in the fields of the forest.

Proverbs 14:1

Every wise woman has built her house, But the foolish breaks it down with her hands.

Proverbs 31:23

Her husband is known in the gates, When he sits among the elders of the land.

Jeremiah 32:10

“And I signed the deed and sealed it, took witnesses, and weighed the silver in the scales.

Micah 5:2

“But you, Bĕ

Matthew 2:6

‘But you, Bĕ

Deuteronomy 25:7

“But if the man does not desire to take his brother’s wife, then let his brother’s wife go up to the gate to the elders, and say, ‘My husband’s brother refuses to raise up a name to his brother in Yisra’ĕ

Deuteronomy 25:9

then his brother’s wife shall come to him in the presence of the elders, and remove his sandal from his foot, and shall spit in his face, and answer and say, ‘Thus it is done to the man who does not build up his brother’s house.’

Ruth 1:2

And the name of the man was Elimeleḵ