¹¹ Then all the people who were ^(A)at the gate and the elders said, “We are witnesses. May the Lord make the woman, who is coming into your house, like Rachel and Leah, ^(B)who together ^(C)built up the house of Israel. May you act worthily in ^(D)Ephrathah and ^(E)be renowned in Bethlehem,

¹² and may your house be like the house of Perez, ^(A)whom Tamar bore to Judah, because ^(B)of the offspring that the Lord will give you by this young woman.”