16Then Naomi took the child, laid him in her lap and cared for him.


In Context

13 So Boaz took Ruth and she became his wife. Then he went to her, and the Lord enabled her to conceive, and she gave birth to a son.

14 The women said to Naomi: "Praise be to the Lord , who this day has not left you without a kinsman-redeemer. May he become famous throughout Israel!

15 He will renew your life and sustain you in your old age. For your daughter-in- law, who loves you and who is better to you than seven sons, has given him birth."

16 Then Naomi took the child, laid him in her lap and cared for him.

17 The women living there said, "Naomi has a son." And they named him Obed. He was the father of Jesse, the father of David.

18 This, then, is the family line of Perez: Perez was the father of Hezron,

Ruth 4:16 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

4:16And Naomi took the child, and laid it in her bosom, and became nurse unto it.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

4:16And Naomi took the child, and laid it in her bosom, and became nurse unto it.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:16And Naomi took the child, and laid it in her bosom, and became nurse to it.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:16Naomi took the child, and laid it in her bosom, and became nurse to it.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

4:16And Noemi taking the child laid it in her bosom, and she carried it, and was a nurse unto it.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

4:16And Naomi took the child, and laid it in her bosom, and became nurse unto it.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:16And Naomi took the child, and laid it in her bosom, and became its nurse.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

4:16And Naomi taketh the lad, and layeth him in her bosom, and is to him for a nurse;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

4:16And Naomi took the child, and laid it in her bosom, and became nurse to it.