Ruth 4:12
Good News Translation
May the children that the LORD will give you by this young woman make your family like the family of Perez, the son of Judah and Tamar."

New Revised Standard Version
and, through the children that the LORD will give you by this young woman, may your house be like the house of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah.”

Contemporary English Version
May the children you have by this young woman make your family as famous as the family of Perez, the son of Tamar and Judah.

New American Bible
With the offspring the LORD will give you from this young woman, may your house become like the house of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.

the house

Genesis 46:12 The sons of Juda: Her and Onan, and Sela, and Phares and Zara. And Her and Onan died in the land of Chanaan. And sons were born to Phares: Hesron and Hamul.

Numbers 26:20-22 And the sons of Juda by their kindreds were: Sela, of whom is the family of the Selaites: Phares, of whom is the family of the Pharesites: Zare, of whom is the family of the Zarites. . . .

whom

Genesis 38:29 But he drawing back his hand, the other came forth: and the woman said: Why is the partition divided for thee? and therefore called his name Phares.

1 Chronicles 2:4 And Thamar his daughter in law bore him Phares and Zara. So all the sons of Juda were five.

Matthew 1:3 And Judas begot Phares and Zara of Thamar. And Phares begot Esron. And Esron begot Aram.

of the seed

1 Samuel 2:20 And Heli blessed Elcana and his wife: and he said to him: The Lord give thee seed of this woman, for the loan thou hast lent to the Lord. And they went to their own home.

Context
Boaz Redeems Ruth
11Then 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: 12And 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.
Cross References
Matthew 1:3
And Judas begot Phares and Zara of Thamar. And Phares begot Esron. And Esron begot Aram.

Genesis 38:29
But he drawing back his hand, the other came forth: and the woman said: Why is the partition divided for thee? and therefore called his name Phares.

Genesis 46:12
The sons of Juda: Her and Onan, and Sela, and Phares and Zara. And Her and Onan died in the land of Chanaan. And sons were born to Phares: Hesron and Hamul.

Ruth 4:18
These are the generations of Phares: Phares begot Esron,

Malachi 2:15
Did not one make her, and she is the residue of his spirit? And what doth one seek, but the seed of God? Keep then your spirit, and despise not the wife of thy youth.

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