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14 Then the women said to Naomi:

Blessed is the Lord, who has not left you without a redeemer today.

May his name be proclaimed in Israel!

15 He will restore your life[a]

and care for you in your old age,

because your daughter-in-law, who loves you, has given birth to him.

She is better for you than seven sons!

16 Then Naomi took the boy and put him on her lap, and she became his caregiver.

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Footnotes

  1. Ruth 4:15 Or soul. The masculine pronouns seem to refer to the child, not to the Lord.