¹¹ Then all the people who were at the gate and the elders said, “We are witnesses. May the Lord grant that the woman who is coming into your household be like Rachel and like Leah, both of whom built up the house of Israel. May you be fertile in Ephrathah and may you preserve a name in Bethlehem.

¹² And may your household be like the household of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah—through the children that the Lord will give you from this young woman.”