Ruth 4:11

like Rachel and like Leah Genesis 29:31 to Genesis 30:24. May Ruth become the ancestress of a famous race! Dante ranks her fourth after Sarah, Rebecca, Judith, in Paradise; Parad.xxxii. 10 ff. For did build the house of Israelcf. Deuteronomy 25:9 and Genesis 14:2; Genesis 30:3 mg.

do thou worthily lit. -achieve might"; the phrase is sometimes rendered -do valiantly," e.g. Numbers 24:18; Psalms 60:12; Psalms 118:15 f.; but here it is used in a moral sense, cf. Ruth 3:11. The reference is to Boaz, here and in the next sentence.

and be famous To obtain this meaning the Hebr. text (lit. -proclaim thou a name") must be slightly altered to -and let thy name be proclaimed," cf. Ruth 4:14. The LXX. favours this correction. How the wish was fulfilled is shewn in Ruth 4:17.