Ruth 4:15

BSB · Public Domain (CC0)

“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.””

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BSBPD

“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.””

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“And he shall be unto thee a restorer of thy life, and a nourisher of thine old age: for thy daughter in law, which loveth thee, which is better to thee than seven sons, hath born him.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“And he shall be unto thee a restorer of life, and a nourisher of thine old age, for thy daughter-in-law, who loveth thee, who is better to thee than seven sons, hath borne him.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“and he hath been to thee for a restorer of life, and for a nourisher of thine old age, for thy daughter-in-law who hath loved thee--who is better to thee than seven sons--hath borne him.'”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Ruth 4:15 — 8 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Genesis 45:11And there I will provide for you, because there will be five more years of famine. Otherwise, you and your household and everything you own will come to destitution.’
  2. Genesis 47:12Joseph also provided his father and brothers and all his father’s household with food for their families.
  3. Ruth 1:16But Ruth replied: “Do not urge me to leave you or to turn from following you. For wherever you go, I will go, and wherever you live, I will live; your people will be my people, and your God will be my God.
  4. Ruth 2:11Boaz replied, “I have been made fully aware of all you have done for your mother-in-law since the death of your husband, how you left your father and mother and the land of your birth, and how you came to a people you did not know before.
  5. 1 Samuel 1:8“Hannah, why are you crying?” her husband Elkanah asked. “Why won’t you eat? Why is your heart so grieved? Am I not better to you than ten sons?”
  6. Psalms 55:22Cast your burden upon the LORD and He will sustain you; He will never let the righteous be shaken.
  7. Proverbs 18:24A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who stays closer than a brother.
  8. Isaiah 46:4Even to your old age, I will be the same, and I will bear you up when you turn gray. I have made you, and I will carry you; I will sustain you and deliver you.

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