And Yosef also went up from Galil, out of the city of Natzeret, into Yhudah, unto the city of David, which is called Beit-Lechem; (because he was of the house and lineage of David:)
But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Yhudah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Yisrael; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting.
And YY said unto Shmuel, How long wilt thou mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Yisrael? fill thine shofar with oil, and go, I will send thee to Yishai the Bethlehemite: for I have provided me a king among his sons.
And he came to Natzeret, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the Synagogue on the Sabbath Day, and stood up for to read.
If thy father at all miss me, then say, David earnestly asked leave of me that he might run to Bethlehem his city: for there is a yearly sacrifice there for all the family.
And the women her neighbours gave it a name, saying, There is a son born to Naomi; and they called his name Oved: he is the father of Yishai, the father of David.
And all the people that were in the gate, and the elders, said, We are witnesses. YY make the woman that is come into thine house like Rachel and like Leah, which two did build the house of Yisrael: and do thou worthily in Ephratah, and be famous in Bethlehem:
Now David was the son of that Ephrathite of BethlehemYhudah, whose name was Yishai; and he had eight sons: and the man went among men for an old man in the days of Saul.
So they two went until they came to Bethlehem. And it came to pass, when they were come to Bethlehem, that all the city was moved about them, and they said, Is this Naomi?
And as for me, when I came from Padan, Rachel died by me in the land of Kenaan in the way, when yet there was but a little way to come unto Ephrath: and I buried her there in the way of Ephrath; the same is Bethlehem.
But while he thought on these things, behold, the angel of YY appeared unto him in a dream, saying, Yosef, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Miryam thy wife: for that which is conceived in her is of Ruach HaKodesh.