“And Naomi took the child, and laid it in her bosom, and became nurse unto it.”
Naomi's taking the newborn son and becoming his nurse represents her restoration from the position of emptiness and bitterness that she had articulated in chapter one to the position of full and honored motherhood within the family. Her active role in the child's upbringing demonstrates her recovery and her assumption of a position of honor and centrality within the household. The narrative's note that Naomi became the nurse of the child suggests both her physical care and her spiritual responsibility for his upbringing.
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