Ruth 4:11
Then all the people that were in the gate, and the ancients answered: We are witnesses: The Lord make this woman who cometh into thy house, like Rachel, and Lia, who built up the house of Israel: that she may be an example of virtue in Ephrata, and may have a famous name in Bethlehem:
Challoner: EphrataAnother name of Bethlehem.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Respondit omnis populus, qui erat in porta, et majores natu : Nos testes sumus : faciat Dominus hanc mulierem, quæ ingreditur domum tuam, sicut Rachel et Liam, quæ ædificaverunt domum Israël : ut sit exemplum virtutis in Ephratha, et habeat celebre nomen in Bethlehem :
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ εἴποσαν πᾶς ὁ λαὸς οἱ ἐν τῇ πύλῃ Μάρτυρες. καὶ οἱ πρεσβύτεροι εἴποσαν Δῴη Κύριος τὴν γυναῖκά σου τὴν εἰσπορευομένην εἰς τὸν οἶκόν σου ὡς Ῥαχὴλ καὶ ὡς Λείαν, αἳ ᾠκοδόμησαν ἀμφότεραι τὸν οἶκον τοῦ Ἰσραὴλ καὶ ἐποίησαν δύναμιν ἐν Ἐφράθα· καὶ ἔσται ὄνομα ἐν Βαιθλέεμ.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיֹּ֨אמְר֜וּ כָּל הָעָ֧ם אֲשֶׁר בַּשַּׁ֛עַר וְהַזְּקֵנִ֖ים עֵדִ֑ים יִתֵּן֩ יְהוָ֨ה אֶֽת הָאִשָּׁ֜ה הַבָּאָ֣ה אֶל בֵּיתֶ֗ךָ כְּרָחֵ֤ל וּכְלֵאָה֙ אֲשֶׁ֨ר בָּנ֤וּ שְׁתֵּיהֶם֙ אֶת בֵּ֣ית יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל וַעֲשֵׂה חַ֣יִל בְּאֶפְרָ֔תָה וּקְרָא שֵׁ֖ם בְּבֵ֥ית לָֽחֶם
Haydock's commentary
Israel, by a numerous posterity.
That she. Hebrew, "mayst thou acquire riches," &c. (Calmet).
Protestants, "do thou (Booz) worthily in," &c. (Haydock).
Ephrata: another name of Bethlehem. (Challoner)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.