Ruth 4:16
14 Then the women said to Naomi, “Blessed be the LORD, who has not left you this day without a kinsman-redeemer. May his name become famous in Israel.
15 He will renew your life and sustain you in your old age. For your daughter-in-law, who loves you and is better to you than seven sons, has given him birth.”
And Naomi took the child, placed him on her lap, and became a nurse to him.
17 The neighbor women said, “A son has been born to Naomi,” and they named him Obed. He became the father of Jesse, the father of David.
18 Now these are the generations of Perez: Perez was the father of Hezron,
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- And Naomi took the child, placed him on her lap, and became a nurse to him.
- KJV
- And Naomi took the child, and laid it in her bosom, and became nurse unto it.
- WEB
- Naomi took the child, laid him in her bosom, and became nurse to him.
- ASV
- And Naomi took the child, and laid it in her bosom, and became nurse unto it.
- DARBY
- And Naomi took the child, and laid it in her bosom, and became nurse to it.
- BLB
- And Naomi took the child and laid him in her bosom, and she became to him a nurse.
- ÅB
- Og No'omi tok barnet og la ham i sitt fang, og hun ble hans fostermor.
- OTB
- Noomi tok barnet, la ham i fanget sitt og tok seg av ham.
- B1930
- Og No'omi tok barnet og la ham i sitt fang, og hun blev hans fostermor.