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1 Naomi had a relative of her husband’s, a mighty
man of wealth, of the family of Elimelech, and his name was Boaz. 2 Ruth
the Moabitess said to Naomi, “Let me now go to the field, and glean among the
ears of grain after him in whose sight I find favor.”
She said to her, “Go, my daughter.” 3 She went,
and came and gleaned in the field after the reapers; and she happened to come
to the portion of the field belonging to Boaz, who was of the family of
Elimelech.
4 Behold, Boaz came from Bethlehem, and said to
the reapers, “May Jehovah be with you.”
They answered him, “May Jehovah bless you.”
5 Then Boaz said to his servant who was set over
the reapers, “Whose young lady is this?”
6 The servant who was set over the reapers
answered, “It is the Moabite lady who came back with Naomi out of the country
of Moab. 7 She said, ‘Please let me glean and gather after the reapers
among the sheaves.’ So she came, and has continued even from the morning until
now, except that she rested a little in the house.”
8 Then Boaz said to Ruth, “Listen, my daughter.
Don’t go to glean in another field, and don’t go from here, but stay here close
to my maidens. 9 Let your eyes be on the field that they reap, and go
after them. Haven’t I commanded the young men not to touch you? When you are
thirsty, go to the vessels, and drink from that which the young men have
drawn.”
10 Then she fell on her face, and bowed herself
to the ground, and said to him, “Why have I found favor in your sight, that you
should take knowledge of me, since I am a foreigner?”
11 Boaz answered her, “I have been fully told
about all that you have done to your mother-in-law since the death of your
husband, and how you have left your father and your mother, and the land of
your birth, and have come to a people that you didn’t know before. 12 May Jehovah
repay your work, and a full reward be given to you from Jehovah, the God of
Israel, under whose wings you have come to take refuge.”
13 Then she said, “Let me find favor in your
sight, my lord, because you have comforted me, and because you have spoken
kindly to your servant, though I am not as one of your servants.”
14 At meal time Boaz said to her, “Come here, and
eat some bread, and dip your morsel in the vinegar.”
She sat beside the reapers, and they passed her
parched grain, and she ate, and was satisfied, and left some of it. 15 When
she had risen up to glean, Boaz commanded his young men, saying, “Let her glean
even among the sheaves, and don’t reproach her. 16 Also pull out some for
her from the bundles, and leave it. Let her glean, and don’t rebuke her.”
17 So she gleaned in the field until evening; and
she beat out that which she had gleaned, and it was about an ephah of barley. 18 She
took it up, and went into the city. Then her mother-in-law saw what she had
gleaned; and she brought out and gave to her that which she had left after she
had enough.
19 Her mother-in-law said to her, “Where have you
gleaned today? Where have you worked? Blessed be he who noticed you.”
She told her mother-in-law with whom she had worked,
“The man’s name with whom I worked today is Boaz.” 20 Naomi said to her
daughter-in-law, “May he be blessed by Jehovah, who has not left off his
kindness to the living and to the dead.” Naomi said to her, “The man is a close
relative to us, one of our near kinsmen.”
21 Ruth the Moabitess said, “Yes, he said to me,
‘You shall stay close to my young men, until they have finished all my
harvest.’”
22 Naomi said to Ruth her daughter-in-law, “It is
good, my daughter, that you go out with his maidens, and that they not come
against you in any other field.” 23 So she stayed close to the maidens of
Boaz, to glean to the end of barley harvest and of wheat harvest; and she lived
with her mother-in-law.
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