Ruth 4:14
And 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.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Dixeruntque mulieres ad Noëmi : Benedictus Dominus, qui non est passus ut deficeret successor familiæ tuæ, et vocaretur nomen ejus in Israël :
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ εἶπαν αἱ γυναῖκες πρὸς Νωεμείν Εὐλογητὸς Κύριος ὅς οὐ κατέλυσέ σοι σήμερον τὸν ἀγχιστέα, καὶ καλέσαι τὸ ὄνομά σου ἐν Ἰσραήλ·
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַתֹּאמַ֤רְנָה הַנָּשִׁים֙ אֶֽל נָעֳמִ֔י בָּר֣וּךְ יְהוָ֔ה אֲ֠שֶׁר לֹ֣א הִשְׁבִּ֥ית לָ֛ךְ גֹּאֵ֖ל הַיּ֑וֹם וְיִקָּרֵ֥א שְׁמ֖וֹ בְּיִשְׂרָאֵֽל
Haydock's commentary
Successor. Hebrew, "redeemer, that his (Booz, or the Lord's) name," &c. (Calmet)
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.