Ruth 4:16

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

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

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  • Ruth 4:13-15
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    13 So Boaz took th, and she was his wife: and when he went in unto her, the LORD gave her conception, and she bare a son.

    14 And the women said unto Naomi, Blessed be the LORD, which hath not left thee this day without a kinsman, that his name may be famous in Israel.

    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 born him.

  • 17 And the women her neighbours gave it a name, saying, There is a son born to Naomi; and they called his name Obed: he is the father of Jesse, the father of David.

  • Ruth 3:1-2
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    1 Then Naomi her mother in law said unto her, My daughter, shall I not seek rest for thee, that it may be well with thee?

    2 And now is not Boaz of our kindred, with whose maidens thou wast? Behold, he winnoweth barley to night in the threshingfloor.

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    19 And this woman's child died in the night; because she overlaid it.

    20 And she arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while thine handmaid slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom.

    21 And when I rose in the morning to give my child suck, behold, it was dead: but when I had considered it in the morning, behold, it was not my son, which I did bear.

  • Ruth 2:18-23
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    18 And she took it up, and went into the city: and her mother in law saw what she had gleaned: and she brought forth, and gave to her that she had reserved after she was sufficed.

    19 And her mother in law said unto her, Where hast thou gleaned to day? and where wroughtest thou? blessed be he that did take knowledge of thee. And she shewed her mother in law with whom she had wrought, and said, The man's name with whom I wrought to day is Boaz.

    20 And Naomi said unto her daughter in law, Blessed be he of the LORD, who hath not left off his kindness to the living and to the dead. And Naomi said unto her, The man is near of kin unto us, one of our next kinsmen.

    21 And th the Moabitess said, He said unto me also, Thou shalt keep fast by my young men, until they have ended all my harvest.

    22 And Naomi said unto th her daughter in law, It is good, my daughter, that thou go out with his maidens, that they meet thee not in any other field.

    23 So she kept fast by the maidens of Boaz to glean unto the end of barley harvest and of wheat harvest; and dwelt with her mother in law.

  • Ruth 1:6-14
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    6 Then she arose with her daughters in law, that she might return from the country of Moab: for she had heard in the country of Moab how that the LORD had visited his people in giving them bread.

    7 Wherefore she went forth out of the place where she was, and her two daughters in law with her; and they went on the way to return unto the land of Judah.

    8 And Naomi said unto her two daughters in law, Go, return each to her mother's house: the LORD deal kindly with you, as ye have dealt with the dead, and with me.

    9 The LORD grant you that ye may find rest, each of you in the house of her husband. Then she kissed them; and they lifted up their voice, and wept.

    10 And they said unto her, Surely we will return with thee unto thy people.

    11 And Naomi said, Turn again, my daughters: why will ye go with me? are there yet any more sons in my womb, that they may be your husbands?

    12 Turn again, my daughters, go your way; for I am too old to have an husband. If I should say, I have hope, if I should have an husband also to night, and should also bear sons;

    13 Would ye tarry for them till they were grown? would ye stay for them from having husbands? nay, my daughters; for it grieveth me much for your sakes that the hand of the LORD is gone out against me.

    14 And they lifted up their voice, and wept again: and Orpah kissed her mother in law; but th clave unto her.

  • Ruth 3:16-17
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    16 And when she came to her mother in law, she said, Who art thou, my daughter? And she told her all that the man had done to her.

    17 And she said, These six measures of barley gave he me; for he said to me, Go not empty unto thy mother in law.

  • Ruth 2:5-7
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    5 Then said Boaz unto his servant that was set over the reapers, Whose damsel is this?

    6 And the servant that was set over the reapers answered and said, It is the Moabitish damsel that came back with Naomi out of the country of Moab:

    7 And she said, I pray you, let me glean and gather after the reapers among the sheaves: so she came, and hath continued even from the morning until now, that she tarried a little in the house.

  • Ruth 2:1-2
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    1 And Naomi had a kinsman of her husband's, a mighty man of wealth, of the family of Elimelech; and his name was Boaz.

    2 And th the Moabitess said unto Naomi, Let me now go to the field, and glean ears of corn after him in whose sight I shall find grace. And she said unto her, Go, my daughter.

  • Ruth 1:18-19
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    18 When she saw that she was stedfastly minded to go with her, then she left speaking unto her.

    19 So they two went until they came to Beth-lehem. And it came to pass, when they were come to Beth-lehem, that all the city was moved about them, and they said, Is this Naomi?

  • 19 And he said unto her, Give me thy son. And he took him out of her bosom, and carried him up into a loft, where he abode, and laid him upon his own bed.

  • 20 And about the time of her death the women that stood by her said unto her, Fear not; for thou hast born a son. But she answered not, neither did she regard it.

  • 5 Then said Boaz, What day thou buyest the field of the hand of Naomi, thou must buy it also of th the Moabitess, the wife of the dead, to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance.

  • 22 So Naomi returned, and th the Moabitess, her daughter in law, with her, which returned out of the country of Moab: and they came to Beth-lehem in the beginning of barley harvest.

  • 18 (For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided her from my mother's womb;)

  • 20 And when he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, he sat on her knees till noon, and then died.

  • 11 And Boaz answered and said unto her, It hath fully been shewed me, all that thou hast done unto thy mother in law since the death of thine husband: and how thou hast left thy father and thy mother, and the land of thy nativity, and art come unto a people which thou knewest not heretofore.

  • 12 And Boaz begat Obed, and Obed begat Jesse,

  • 2 And the name of the man was Elimelech, and the name of his wife Naomi, and the name of his two sons Mahlon and Chilion, Ephrathites of Beth-lehem-judah. And they came into the country of Moab, and continued there.

  • 4 And they took them wives of the women of Moab; the name of the one was Orpah, and the name of the other th: and they dwelled there about ten years.

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    23 And Elkanah her husband said unto her, Do what seemeth thee good; tarry until thou have weaned him; only the LORD establish his word. So the woman abode, and gave her son suck until she weaned him.

    24 And when she had weaned him, she took him up with her, with three bullocks, and one ephah of flour, and a bottle of wine, and brought him unto the house of the LORD in Shiloh: and the child was young.

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    17 And the woman conceived, and bare a son at that season that Elisha had said unto her, according to the time of life.

    18 And when the child was grown, it fell on a day, that he went out to his father to the reapers.

  • 9 And Pharaoh's daughter said unto her, Take this child away, and nurse it for me, and I will give thee thy wages. And the woman took the child, and nursed it.

  • 3 And he said unto the kinsman, Naomi, that is come again out of the country of Moab, selleth a parcel of land, which was our brother Elimelech's:

  • 9 And he said, Who art thou? And she answered, I am th thine handmaid: spread therefore thy skirt over thine handmaid; for thou art a near kinsman.