Ruth 4:12-13

4:12 May your family ¹  become like the family of Perez ²  – whom Tamar bore to Judah – through the descendants ³  the Lord gives you by this young woman.”

A Grandson is Born to Naomi

4:13 So Boaz married Ruth and had sexual relations with her. ⁴  The Lord enabled her to conceive ⁵  and she gave birth to a son.

Ruth 4:15

4:15 He will encourage you and provide for you when you are old, ⁶  for your daughter-in-law, who loves you, has given him birth. She ⁷  is better to you than seven sons!”

Ruth 4:17

4:17 The neighbor women named him, saying, “A son has been born to Naomi.” They named him Obed. ⁸  Now he became the father of Jesse – David’s father!

¹ tn Heb “your house” (so NAB, NASB, NRSV).

² tn Heb “and may your house be like the house of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah, from the offspring whom the Lord gives to you from this young woman.”

³ tn Heb “from the seed” (KJV, ASV both similar); NASB, NIV “through the offspring”; NRSV “through the children.”

⁴ tn Heb “and Boaz took Ruth and she became his wife and he went in to her.” Here the phrase “went in to her” (so NASB) is a euphemism for having sexual relations (cf. NCV); NLT “When he slept with her.”

⁵ tn Heb “gave her conception” (so KJV); NRSV “made her conceive”; NLT “enabled her to become pregnant.”

⁷ tn Heb “and he will become for you a restorer of life and a sustainer of your old age” (NASB similar).

⁸ tn Heb “who, she”; KJV “which is better to thee.”

¹⁰ tn The name “Obed” means “one who serves,” perhaps anticipating how he would help Naomi (see v. 15).