New Revised Standard Version
Then all the people who were at the gate, along with the elders, said, “We are witnesses. May the LORD make the woman who is coming into your house like Rachel and Leah, who together built up the house of Israel. May you produce children in Ephrathah and bestow a name in Bethlehem;

Contemporary English Version
The town leaders and the others standing there said: We are witnesses to this. And we pray that the LORD will give your wife many children, just as he did Leah and Rachel, the wives of Jacob. May you be a rich man in the tribe of Ephrath and an important man in Bethlehem.

New American Bible
All those at the gate, including the elders, said, “We do. May the LORD make this woman come into your house like Rachel and Leah, who between them built up the house of Israel. Prosper in Ephrathah! Bestow a name in Bethlehem!

Douay-Rheims Bible
Then 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:

Then 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:

the Lord

Genesis 24:60 Wishing prosperity to their sister, and saying: Thou art our sister, mayst thou increase to thousands of thousands; and may thy seed possess the gates of their enemies.

Psalm 127:3-5 Behold the inheritance of the Lord are children: the reward, the fruit of the womb. . . .

Psalm 128:3-6 Thy wife as a fruitful vine, on the sides of thy house. Thy children as olive plants, round about thy table. . . .

Rachel

Genesis 29:32-35 And she conceived and bore a son, and called his name Ruben, saying: The Lord saw my affliction: now my husband will love me. . . .

Genesis 30:1-24 And Rachel seeing herself without children, envied her sister, and said to her husband: Give me children, otherwise I shall die. . . .

Genesis 35:16-20 And going forth from thence, he came in the spring time to the land which leadeth to Ephrata: wherein when Rachel was in travail, . . .

Genesis 46:8-27 And these are the names of the children of Israel, that entered into Egypt, he and his children. His firstborn Ruben, . . .

Numbers 26:1-65 After the blood of the guilty was shed, the Lord said to Moses and to Eleazar the son of Aaron, the priest: . . .

build

Deuteronomy 25:9 The woman shall come to him before the ancients, and shall take off his shoe from his foot, and spit in his face, and say: So shall it be done to the man that will not build up his brother's house:

Proverbs 14:1 A wise woman buildeth her house: but the foolish will pull down with her hands that also which is built.

do thou worthily.

Ruth 1:2 He was named Elimelech, and his wife Noemi: and his two sons, the one Mahalon, and the other Chelion, Ephrathites of Bethlehem Juda. And entering into the country of Moab, they abode there.

Genesis 35:16,19 And going forth from thence, he came in the spring time to the land which leadeth to Ephrata: wherein when Rachel was in travail, . . .

Psalm 132:6 Behold we have heard of it in Ephrata: we have found it in the fields of the wood.

Micah 5:2 Now shalt thou be laid waste, O daughter of the robber: they have laid siege against us, with a rod shall they strike the cheek of the judge of Israel.

Matthew 2:6 And thou Bethlehem the land of Juda art not the least among the princes of Juda: for out of thee shall come forth the captain that shall rule my people Israel.

be famous [heb] proclaim thy name