World English Bible
Ruth 4:16
“Naomi took the child, and laid it in her bosom, and became nurse to it.”
Verse in context — Ruth 4
14
The women said to Naomi, "Blessed be Yahweh, who has not left you this day without a near kinsman; and 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 borne him.
16
Naomi took the child, and laid it in her bosom, and became nurse to it.
17
The women, her neighbors, gave him a name, saying, "There is a son born to Naomi;" and 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,
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