Online Bible 1995 March/ROM-1025.iso/olb/masters/texts/ylt.lzh/RU.LZH/RU

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1:1 And it cometh to pass, in the days of the judging of the
 judges, that there is a famine in the land, and there goeth a
 man from Beth-Lehem-Judah to sojourn in the fields of Moab, he,
 and his wife, and his two sons.
1:2 And the name of the man [is] Elimelech, and the name of his
 wife Naomi, and the name of his two sons Mahlon and Chilion,
 Ephrathites from Beth-Lehem-Judah; and they come into the
 fields of Moab, and are there.
1:3 And Elimelech husband of Naomi dieth, and she is left, she
 and her two sons;
1:4 and they take to them wives, Moabitesses: the name of the
 one [is] Orpah, and the name of the second Ruth; and they dwell
 there about ten years.
1:5 And they die also, both of them -- Mahlon and Chilion -- and the
 woman is left of her two children and of her husband.
1:6 And she riseth, she and her daughters-in-law, and turneth
 back from the fields of Moab, for she hath heard in the fields
 of Moab that God hath looked after His people, -- to give to them
 bread.
1:7 And she goeth out from the place where she hath been, and
 her two daughters-in-law with her, and they go in the way to
 turn back unto the land of Judah.
1:8 And Naomi saith to her two daughters-in-law, `Go, turn back,
 each to the house of her mother; Jehovah doth with you kindness
 as ye have done with the dead, and with me;
1:9 Jehovah doth grant to you, and find ye rest each in the
 house of her husband;' and she kisseth them, and they lift up
 their voice and weep.
1:10 And they say to her, `Surely with thee we go back to thy
 people.'
1:11 And Naomi saith, `Turn back, my daughters; why do ye go
 with me? are there yet to me sons in my bowels that they have
 been to you for husbands?
1:12 Turn back, my daughters, go, for I am too aged to be to a
 husband; though I had said, There is for me hope, also, I have
 been to-night to a husband, and also I have borne sons:
1:13 for them do ye wait till that they grow up? for them do ye
 shut yourselves up, not to be to a husband? nay, my daughters,
 for more bitter to me than to you, for the hand of Jehovah hath
 gone out against me.'
1:14 And they lift up their voice, and weep again, and Orpah
 kisseth her mother-in-law, and Ruth hath cleaved to her.
1:15 And she saith, `Lo, thy sister-in-law hath turned back unto
 her people, and unto her god, turn thou back after thy
 sister-in-law.'
1:16 And Ruth saith, `Urge me not to leave thee -- to turn back
 from after thee; for whither thou goest I go, and where thou
 lodgest I lodge; thy people [is] my people, and thy God my God.
1:17 Where thou diest I die, and there I am buried; thus doth
 Jehovah to me, and thus doth He add -- for death itself doth part
 between me and thee.'
1:18 And she seeth that she is strengthening herself to go with
 her, and she ceaseth to speak unto her;
1:19 and they go both of them till their coming in to Beth-Lehem;
 and it cometh to pass at their coming in to Beth-Lehem, that
 all the city is moved at them, and they say, `Is this Naomi?'
1:20 And she saith unto them, `Call me not Naomi; call me Mara,
 for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly to me,
1:21 I went out full, and empty hath Jehovah brought me back,
 why do ye call me Naomi, and Jehovah hath testified against me,
 and the Almighty hath done evil to me?'
1:22 And Naomi turneth back, and Ruth the Moabitess her
 daughter-in-law with her, who hath turned back from the fields
 of Moab, and they have come in to Beth-Lehem at the
 commencement of barley-harvest.
2:1 And Naomi hath an acquaintance of her husband's, a man
 mighty in wealth, of the family of Elimelech, and his name [is]
 Boaz.
2:2 And Ruth the Moabitess saith unto Naomi, `Let me go, I pray
 thee, into the field, and I gather among the ears of corn after
 him in whose eyes I find grace;' and she saith to her, `Go, my
 daughter.'
2:3 And she goeth and cometh and gathereth in a field after the
 reapers, and her chance happeneth -- the portion of the field is
 Boaz's who [is] of the family of Elimelech.
2:4 And lo, Boaz hath come from Beth-Lehem, and saith to the
 reapers, `Jehovah [is] with you;' and they say to him,
 `Jehovah doth bless thee.'
2:5 And Boaz saith to his young man who is set over the reapers,
 `Whose [is] this young person?'
2:6 And the young man who is set over the reapers answereth and
 saith, `A young woman -- Moabitess -- she [is], who came back with
 Naomi from the fields of Moab,
2:7 and she saith, Let me glean, I pray thee -- and I have
 gathered among the sheaves after the reapers; and she cometh
 and remaineth since the morning and till now; she sat in the
 house a little.
2:8 And Boaz saith unto Ruth, `Hast thou not heard, my daughter?
 go not to glean in another field, and also, pass not over from
 this, and thus thou dost cleave to my young women:
2:9 thine eyes [are] on the field which they reap, and thou hast
 gone after them; have not I charged the young men not to touch
 thee? when thou art athirst then thou hast gone unto the
 vessels, and hast drunk from that which the young men draw.'
2:10 And she falleth on her face, and boweth herself to the
 earth, and saith unto him, `Wherefore have I found grace in
 thine eyes, to discern me, and I a stranger?'
2:11 And Boaz answereth and saith to her, `It hath thoroughly
 been declared to me all that thou hast done with thy
 mother-in-law, after the death of thy husband, and thou dost
 leave thy father, and thy mother, and the land of thy birth,
 and dost come in unto a people which thou hast not known
 heretofore.
2:12 Jehovah doth recompense thy work, and thy reward is
 complete from Jehovah, God of Israel, under whose wings thou
 hast come to take refuge.'
2:13 And she saith, `Let me find grace in thine eyes, my lord,
 because thou hast comforted me, and because thou hast spoken
 unto the heart of thy maid-servant, and I -- I am not as one of
 thy maid-servants.'
2:14 And Boaz saith to her, `At meal-time come nigh hither, and
 thou hast eaten of the bread, and dipped thy morsel in the
 vinegar.' And she sitteth at the side of the reapers, and he
 reacheth to her roasted corn, and she eateth, and is satisfied,
 and leaveth.
2:15 And she riseth to glean, and Boaz chargeth his young men,
 saying, `Even between the sheaves she doth glean, and ye do not
 cause her to blush;
2:16 and also ye do surely cast to her of the handfuls -- and have
 left, and she hath gleaned, and ye do not push against her.'
2:17 And she gleaneth in the field till the evening, and beateth
 out that which she hath gleaned, and it is about an ephah of
 barley;
2:18 and she taketh [it] up, and goeth into the city, and her
 mother-in-law seeth that which she hath gleaned, and she
 bringeth out and giveth to her that which she left from her
 satiety.
2:19 And her mother-in-law saith to her, `Where hast thou
 gleaned to-day? and where hast thou wrought? may he who is
 discerning thee be blessed.' And she declareth to her
 mother-in-law with whom she hath wrought, and saith, `The name
 of the man with whom I have wrought to-day [is] Boaz.'
2:20 And Naomi saith to her daughter-in-law, `Blessed [is] he of
 Jehovah who hath not forsaken His kindness with the living and
 with the dead;' and Naomi saith to her, `The man is a relation
 of ours; he [is] of our redeemers.'
2:21 And Ruth the Moabitess saith, `Also he surely said unto me,
 Near the young people whom I have thou dost cleave till they
 have completed the whole of the harvest which I have.'
2:22 And Naomi saith unto Ruth her daughter-in-law, `Good, my
 daughter, that thou goest out with his young women, and they
 come not against thee in another field.'
2:23 And she cleaveth to the young women of Boaz to glean, till
 the completion of the barley-harvest, and of the wheat-harvest,
 and she dwelleth with her mother-in-law.
3:1 And Naomi her mother-in-law saith to her, `My daughter, do
 not I seek for thee rest, that it may be well with thee?
3:2 and now, is not Boaz of our acquaintance, with whose young
 women thou hast been? lo, he is winnowing the threshing-floor
 of barley to-night,
3:3 and thou hast bathed, and anointed thyself, and put thy
 garments upon thee, and gone down to the threshing-floor; let
 not thyself be known to the man till he complete to eat and to
 drink;
3:4 and it cometh to pass when he lieth down, that thou hast
 known the place where he lieth down, and hast gone in, and
 uncovered his feet, and lain down, -- and he doth declare to thee
 that which thou dost do.'
3:5 And she saith unto her, `All that thou sayest -- I do.'
3:6 And she goeth down [to] the threshing-floor, and doth
 according to all that her mother-in-law commanded her
3:7 And Boaz eateth and drinketh, and his heart is glad; and he
 goeth in to lie down at the end of the heap; and she cometh in
 gently, and uncovereth his feet, and lieth down.
3:8 And it cometh to pass, at the middle of the night, that the
 man trembleth, and turneth himself, and lo, a woman is lying at
 his feet.
3:9 And he saith, `Who [art] thou?' and she saith, `I [am] Ruth
 thy handmaid, and thou hast spread thy skirt over thy handmaid,
 for thou [art] a redeemer.'
3:10 And he saith, `Blessed [art] thou of Jehovah, my daughter;
 thou hast dealt more kindly at the latter end than at the
 beginning -- not to go after the young men, either poor or rich.
3:11 And now, my daughter, fear not, all that thou sayest I do
 to thee, for all the gate of my people doth know that thou
 [art] a virtuous woman.
3:12 And now, surely, true, that I [am] a redeemer, but also
 there is a redeemer nearer than I.
3:13 Lodge to night, and it hath been in the morning, if he doth
 redeem thee, well: he redeemeth; and if he delight not to
 redeem thee, then I have redeemed thee -- I; Jehovah liveth! lie
 down till the morning.'
3:14 And she lieth down at his feet till the morning, and riseth
 before one doth discern another; and he saith, `Let it not be
 known that the woman hath come into the floor.'
3:15 And he saith, `Give the covering which [is] on thee, and
 keep hold on it;' and she keepeth hold on it, and he measureth
 six [measures] of barley, and layeth [it] on her; and he goeth
 into the city.
3:16 And she cometh in unto her mother-in-law, and she saith,
 `Who [art] thou, my daughter?' and she declareth to her all
 that the man hath done to her.
3:17 And she saith, `These six [measures] of barley he hath
 given to me, for he said, Thou dost not go in empty unto thy
 mother-in-law.'
3:18 And she saith, `Sit still, my daughter, till thou dost know
 how the matter falleth, for the man doth not rest except he
 hath completed the matter to-day.'
4:1 And Boaz hath gone up to the gate, and sitteth there, and
 lo, the redeemer is passing by of whom Boaz had spoken, and he
 saith, `Turn aside, sit down here, such a one, such a one;' and
 he turneth aside and sitteth down.
4:2 And he taketh ten men of the elders of the city, and saith,
 `Sit down here;' and they sit down.
4:3 And he saith to the redeemer, `A portion of the field which
 [is] to our brother, to Elimelech, hath Naomi sold, who hath
 come back from the fields of Moab;
4:4 and I said, I uncover thine ear, saying, Buy before the
 inhabitants, and before the elders of my people; if thou dost
 redeem -- redeem, and if none doth redeem -- declare to me, and I
 know, for there is none save thee to redeem, and I after thee.'
 And he saith, I redeem [it].'
4:5 And Boaz saith, `In the day of thy buying the field from the
 hand of Naomi, then from Ruth the Moabitess, wife of the dead,
 thou hast bought [it], to raise up the name of the dead over
 his inheritance.'
4:6 And the redeemer saith, `I am not able to redeem [it] for
 myself, lest I destroy mine inheritance; redeem for
 thyself -- thou -- my right of redemption, for I am not able to
 redeem.'
4:7 And this [is] formerly in Israel for redemption and for
 changing, to establish anything: a man hath drawn off his
 sandal, and given [it] to his neighbour, and this [is] the
 testimony in Israel.
4:8 And the redeemer saith to Boaz, `Buy [it] for thyself,' and
 draweth off his sandal.
4:9 And Boaz saith to the elders, and [to] all the people,
 `Witnesses [are] ye to-day that I have bought all that [is] to
 Elimelech, and all that [is] to Chilion and Mahlon, from the
 hand of Naomi;
4:10 and also Ruth the Moabitess, wife of Mahlon, I have bought
 to myself for a wife, to raise up the name of the dead over his
 inheritance; and the name of the dead is not cut off from among
 his brethren, and from the gate of his place; witnesses ye
 [are] to-day.'
4:11 And all the people who [are] in the gate say -- also the
 elders -- `Witnesses! Jehovah make the woman who is coming in
 unto thy house as Rachel and as Leah, both of whom built the
 house of Israel; and do thou virtuously in Ephrathah, and
 proclaim the Name in Beth-Lehem;
4:12 and let thy house be as the house of Pharez (whom Tamar
 bare to Judah), of the seed which Jehovah doth give to thee of
 this young woman.'
4:13 And Boaz taketh Ruth, and she becometh his wife, and he
 goeth in unto her, and Jehovah giveth to her conception, and
 she beareth a son.
4:14 And the women say unto Naomi, `Blessed [is] Jehovah who
 hath not let a redeemer cease to thee to-day, and his name is
 proclaimed in Israel,
4:15 and he hath been to thee for a restorer of life, and for a
 nourisher of thine old age, for thy daughter-in-law who hath
 loved thee -- who is better to thee than seven sons -- hath borne
 him.'
4:16 And Naomi taketh the lad, and layeth him in her bosom, and
 is to him for a nurse;
4:17 and the neighbouring women give to him a name, saying,
 `There hath been a son born to Naomi,' and they call his name
 Obed; he [is] father of Jesse, father of David.
4:18 And these are genealogies of Pharez: Pharez begat Hezron,
4:19 and Hezron begat Ram, and Ram begat Amminidab,
4:20 and Amminidab begat Nahshon, and Nahshon begat Salmon,
4:21 and Salmon begat Boaz, and Boaz begat Obed,
4:22 and Obed begat Jesse, and Jesse begat David.