11. All those at the gate, including the elders, said, “We do. May the Lord make this woman come into your house like Rachel and Leah, who between them built up the house of Israel. Prosper in Ephrathah! Bestow a name in Bethlehem!
12. With the offspring the Lord will give you from this young woman, may your house become like the house of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah.”
13. Boaz took Ruth. When they came together as husband and wife, the Lord enabled her to conceive and she bore a son.