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14 The village women said to Naomi, |May the LORD be praised because he has not left you without a guardian today! May he become famous in Israel! 15 He will encourage you and provide for you when you are old, for your daughter-in-law, who loves you, has given him birth. She is better to you than seven sons!| 16 Naomi took the child and placed him on her lap; she became his caregiver. 17 The neighbor women named him, saying, |A son has been born to Naomi.| They named him Obed. Now he became the father of Jesse--David's father! Ruth 4:14-17, New English Translation. Copyright © 1996-2017 by Biblical Studies Press.
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