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


In Context

13 So Boaz took Ruth, and she became his wife; and he went in to her, and Yahweh gave her conception, and she bore a son.

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,

Ruth 4:16 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

4:16Then Naomi took the child, laid him in her lap and cared for him.

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 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.