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Ruth 4:17
“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.”
Verse in context — Ruth 4
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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.
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Naomi took the child, and laid it in her bosom, and became nurse to it.
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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.
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Now this is the history of the generations of Perez: Perez became the father of Hezron,
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and Hezron became the father of Ram, and Ram became the father of Amminadab,
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