Ruth 4:9-12

New International Version

⁹ Then Boaz announced to the elders and all the people, “Today you are witnesses^(A) that I have bought from Naomi all the property of Elimelek, Kilion and Mahlon. ¹⁰ I have also acquired Ruth the Moabite,^(B) Mahlon’s widow, as my wife,^(C) in order to maintain the name of the dead with his property, so that his name will not disappear from among his family or from his hometown.^(D) Today you are witnesses!^(E)”

¹¹ Then the elders and all the people at the gate^(F) said, “We are witnesses.^(G) May the Lord make the woman who is coming into your home like Rachel and Leah,^(H) who together built up the family of Israel. May you have standing in Ephrathah^(I) and be famous in Bethlehem.^{(J) 12} Through the offspring the Lord gives you by this young woman, may your family be like that of Perez,^(K) whom Tamar^(L) bore to Judah.”