Ruth 4:16-18

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

¹⁶ Then Na′omi took the child and laid him in her bosom, and became his nurse. ¹⁷ And the women of the neighborhood gave him a name, saying, “A son has been born to Na′omi.” They named him Obed; he was the father of Jesse, the father of David.

¹⁸ Now these are the descendants of Perez: Perez was the father of Hezron,