9. Boaz said to the elders, and to all the people, “You are witnesses today, that I have bought all that was Elimelech’s, and all that was Chilion’s and Mahlon’s, from the hand of Naomi.
10. Moreover Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, I have purchased to be my wife, to raise up the name of the dead on his inheritance, that the name of the dead may not be cut off from amongst his brothers, and from the gate of his place. You are witnesses today.”
11. All the people who were in the gate, and the elders, said, “We are witnesses. May the Lord make the woman who has come into your house like Rachel and like Leah, which both built the house of Israel; and treat you worthily in Ephrathah, and be famous in Bethlehem.
12. Let your house be like the house of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah, of the offspring which the Lord will give you by this young woman.”
13. So Boaz took Ruth, and she became his wife; and he went in to her, and the Lord enabled her to conceive, and she bore a son.
14. The women said to Naomi, “Blessed be the Lord, who has not left you today without a near kinsman. Let his name be famous in Israel.
15. He shall be to you a restorer of life, and sustain you in your old age, for your daughter-in-law, who loves you, who is better to you than seven sons, has given birth to him.”
16. Naomi took the child, and laid him in her bosom, and became nurse to it.
17. The women, her neighbours, gave him a name, saying, “A son is born to Naomi”. They named him Obed. He is the father of Jesse, the father of David.
18. Now this is the history of the generations of Perez: Perez became the father of Hezron,
19. and Hezron became the father of Ram, and Ram became the father of Amminadab,
20. and Amminadab became the father of Nahshon, and Nahshon became the father of Salmon,
21. and Salmon became the father of Boaz, and Boaz became the father of Obed,
22. and Obed became the father of Jesse, and Jesse became the father of David.