Ruth 4:13
Good News Translation
So Boaz took Ruth home as his wife. The LORD blessed her, and she became pregnant and had a son.

New Revised Standard Version
So Boaz took Ruth and she became his wife. When they came together, the LORD made her conceive, and she bore a son.

Contemporary English Version
Boaz married Ruth, and the LORD blessed her with a son.

New American Bible
Boaz took Ruth. When they came together as husband and wife, the LORD enabled her to conceive and she bore a son.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Booz therefore took Ruth, and married her: and went in unto her, and the Lord gave her to conceive, and to bear a son.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Booz therefore took Ruth, and married her: and went in unto her, and the Lord gave her to conceive, and to bear a son.

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Boaz

Ruth 3:11 Fear not therefore, but whatsoever thou shalt say to me I will do to thee. For all the people that dwell within the gates of my city, know that thou art a virtuous woman.

the Lord

Ruth 4:12 And that the house may be, as the house of Phares, whom Thamar bore unto Juda, of the seed which the Lord shall give thee of this young woman.

Genesis 20:17,18 And when Abraham prayed, God healed Abimelech and his wife, and his handmaids, and they bore children: . . .

Genesis 21:1-3 And the Lord visited Sara, as he had promised: and fulfilled what he had spoken. . . .

Genesis 25:21 And Isaac besought the Lord for his wife, because she was barren: and he heard him, and made Rebecca to conceive.

Genesis 29:31 And the Lord seeing that he despised Lia, opened her womb, but her sister remained barren.

Genesis 30:2,22,23 And Jacob being angry with her, answered: Am I as God, who hath deprived thee of the fruit of thy womb? . . .

Genesis 33:5 And lifting up his eyes, he saw the women and their children, and said: What mean these? And do they belong to thee? He answered: They are the children which God hath given to me, thy servant.

1 Samuel 1:27 For this child did I pray, and the Lord hath granted me my petition, which I asked of him.

1 Samuel 2:5 They that were full before, have hired out themselves for bread: and the hungry are filled, so that the barren hath borne many: and she that had many children is weakened.

Psalm 113:9 Who maketh a barren woman to dwell in a house, the joyful mother of children.

Psalm 127:3 Behold the inheritance of the Lord are children: the reward, the fruit of the womb.

Context
Boaz Marries Ruth
13Booz therefore took Ruth, and married her: and went in unto her, and the Lord gave her to conceive, and to bear a son.14And the women said to Noemi: Blessed be the Lord, who hath not suffered thy family to want a successor: that his name should be preserved in Israel.…
Cross References
Genesis 29:31
And the Lord seeing that he despised Lia, opened her womb, but her sister remained barren.

Genesis 33:5
And lifting up his eyes, he saw the women and their children, and said: What mean these? And do they belong to thee? He answered: They are the children which God hath given to me, thy servant.

Ruth 4:12
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