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1:1	AndNow it came toabout pass in the days when the judges judgedgoverned, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of BethBethlehem lehemin judahJudah went to sojourn in the countryland of Moab, he,with and his wife, and his two sons.
1:2	And the name of the man was Elimelech, and the name of his wife, Naomi,; and the namenames of his two sons were Mahlon and Chilion, Ephrathites of BethBethlehem lehemin judahJudah. AndNow they cameentered into the countryland of Moab, and continuedremained there.
1:3	AndThen Elimelech, Naomis husband, died; and she was left, andwith her two sons.
1:4	And they took themfor wivesthemselves ofMoabite the women ofas Moabwives; the name of the one was Orpah, and the name of the other Ruth:. andAnd they dweltlived there about ten years.
1:5	AndThen both Mahlon and Chilion also died both of them; and the woman was leftbereft of her two children and of her husband.
1:6	Then she arose with her daughters in law, that she might return from the countryland of Moab:, for she had heard in the countryland of Moab how that Jehovahthe Lord had visited hisHis people in giving them breadfood.
1:7	AndSo she wentdeparted forthfrom out of the place where she was, and her two daughters in law with her; and they went on the way to return untoto the land of Judah.
1:8	And Naomi said untoto her two daughters in law, Go, return each of you to her mothers house:. JehovahMay the Lord deal kindly with you, as yeyou have dealt with the dead, and with me.
1:9	JehovahMay the Lord grant you that yeyou may find rest, each of you in the house of her husband. Then she kissed them, and they lifted up their voice,voices and wept.
1:10	And they said untoto her, NayNo, but we will surely return with theeyou untoto thyyour people.
1:11	AndBut Naomi said, Turn againReturn, my daughters:. whyWhy willshould yeyou go with me? haveHave I yet sons in my womb, that they may be your husbands?
1:12	Turn againReturn, my daughters! Go, go your way; for I am too old to have a husband. If I shouldsaid say, I have hope, if I should even have a husband totonight night, and should also bear sons;,
1:13	would yeyou therefore tarrywait tilluntil they were grown? wouldWould yeyou therefore stayrefrain from having husbandsmarrying? nayNo, my daughters,; for it grievethis harder for me muchthan for your sakesyou, for the hand of Jehovahthe isLord has gone forth against me.
1:14	And they lifted up their voice,voices and wept again:; and Orpah kissed her mother in law, but Ruth claveclung untoto her.
1:15	AndThen she said, Behold, thyyour sister in law ishas gone back untoto her people, and unto her god:gods; return thou after thyyour sister in law.
1:16	AndBut Ruth said, EntreatDo not urge me not to leave thee,you andor toturn returnback from following afteryou; thee, for whitherwhere thouyou goestgo, I will go;, and where thouyou lodgestlodge, I will lodge;. thyYour people shall be my people, and thyyour God, my God;.
1:17	whereWhere thouyou diestdie, I will I die, and there I will I be buried:. JehovahThus may the Lord do so to me, and more alsoworse, if aughtanything but death partparts theeyou and me.
1:18	AndWhen when she saw that she was stedfastlydetermined minded to go with her, she leftsaid offno speakingmore untoto her.
1:19	So they twoboth went until they came to Beth lehemBethlehem. And it came toabout pass, when they werehad come to Beth lehemBethlehem, that all the city was movedstirred aboutbecause of them, and the women said, Is this Naomi?
1:20	And she said untoto them, CallDo not call me not Naomi,; call me Mara;, for the Almighty hathhas dealt very bitterly with me.
1:21	I went out full, andbut Jehovahthe hathLord has brought me homeback again empty;. whyWhy do you call ye me Naomi, seeingsince Jehovahthe hathLord testifiedhas witnessed against me, and the Almighty hathhas afflicted me?
1:22	So Naomi returned, and with her Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter in law, with her, who returned outfrom of the countryland of Moab:. andAnd they came to BethBethlehem lehemat in the beginning of barley harvest.
2:1	AndNow Naomi had a kinsman of her husbandshusband, a mighty man of great wealth, of the family of Elimelech, andwhose his name was Boaz.
2:2	And Ruth the Moabitess said untoto Naomi, LetPlease let me now go to the field, and glean among the ears of grain after himone in whose sight I shallmay find favor. And she said untoto her, Go, my daughter.
2:3	AndSo she went,departed and camewent and gleaned in the field after the reapers:; and hershe haphappened was to lightcome onto the portion of the field belonging untoto Boaz, who was of the family of Elimelech.
2:4	And,Now behold, Boaz came from BethBethlehem lehem, and said untoto the reapers, JehovahMay the Lord be with you. And they answeredsaid to him, JehovahMay the Lord bless theeyou.
2:5	Then Boaz said Boazto unto his servant thatwho was setin overcharge of the reapers, Whose damselyoung woman is this?
2:6	And the servant thatin wascharge setof over the reapers answered and said, ItShe is the Moabitishyoung damselMoabite thatwoman camewho backreturned with Naomi outfrom of the countryland of Moab:.
2:7	andAnd she said, LetPlease let me glean, I pray you, and gather after the reapers among the sheaves. SoThus she came, and hathhas continuedremained even from the morning until now,; save that she tarriedhas abeen littlesitting in the house for a little while.
2:8	Then Boaz said Boazto unto Ruth, HearestListen thou notcarefully, my daughter?. GoDo not go to glean in another field; furthermore, neitherdo passnot go on from hencethis one, but abidestay here fastwith by my maidensmaids.
2:9	Let thineyour eyes be on the field thatwhich they do reap, and go thou after them:. haveIndeed, I nothave chargedcommanded the youngservants mennot thatto they shall not touch thee?you. andWhen whenyou thouare art athirstthirsty, go untoto the vessels,water jars and drink offrom thatwhat which the youngservants men have drawndraw.
2:10	Then she fell on her face, andbowing bowed herself to the ground, and said untoto him, Why have I found favor in thyyour sight, that thouyou shouldestshould take knowledgenotice of me, seeingsince I am a foreigner?
2:11	And Boaz answered and said untoto her, ItAll hath fully been showed me, all that thouyou hasthave done untofor thyyour mother in law sinceafter the death of thyyour husband; has been fully reported to me, and how thouyou hast left thyyour father and thyyour mother, and the land of thyyour nativitybirth, and artcame cometo unto a people that thouyou knewestdid not heretoforepreviously know.
2:12	JehovahMay recompensethe thyLord reward your work, and ayour fullwages reward be givenfull theefrom ofthe JehovahLord, the God of Israel, under whose wings thouyou arthave come to takeseek refuge.
2:13	Then she said, LetI mehave findfound favor in thyyour sight, my Lord, for thatyou thouhave hast comforted me, and forindeed thathave thou hast spoken kindly untoto thyyour handmaidmaidservant, though I beam not aslike one of thyyour handmaidensmaidservants.
2:14	And at mealmealtime time Boaz said untoto her, Come hitherhere, andthat you may eat of the bread, and dip thyyour morselpiece of bread in the vinegar. AndSo she sat beside the reapers,; and theyhe reachedserved her parchedroasted grain, and she didate eat, and was sufficed,satisfied and had some left thereof.
2:15	AndWhen when she wasrose risen up to glean, Boaz commanded his young menservants, saying, Let her glean even among the sheaves, and reproachdo not insult her not.
2:16	And also you shall purposely pull out some for her some grain from the bundles, and leave it, andthat letshe hermay glean, and do not rebuke her not.
2:17	So she gleaned in the field until even;evening. andThen she beat out thatwhat which she had gleaned, and it was about an ephah of barley.
2:18	And she took it up, and went into the city;, and her mother in law saw what she had gleaned:. andShe shealso broughttook forthit out and gave toNaomi herwhat that which she had left after she was sufficedsatisfied.
2:19	AndHer her mother in law then said untoto her, Where hastdid thouyou gleanedglean totoday day? and where hastdid thouyou wroughtwork? blessedMay be he thatwho didtook takenotice knowledge of theeyou be blessed. AndSo she showedtold her mother in law with whom she had wrought,worked and said, The mans name of the man with whom I wroughtworked totoday day is Boaz.
2:20	And Naomi said untoto her daughter in law, BlessedMay he be heblessed of Jehovah,the Lord who hathhas not leftwithdrawn off his kindness to the living and to the dead. AndAgain Naomi said untoto her, The man is nighour ofrelative, kinhe untois us, one of our nearclosest kinsmenrelatives.
2:21	AndThen Ruth the Moabitess said, YeaFurthermore, he said untoto me, ThouYou shaltshould keepstay fastclose byto my youngservants men, until they have endedfinished all my harvest.
2:22	And Naomi said untoto Ruth her daughter in law, It is good, my daughter, that thouyou go out with his maidensmaids, andlest thatothers theyfall meetupon theeyou not in anyanother other field.
2:23	So she keptstayed fastclose by the maidensmaids of Boaz, in order to glean untountil the end of the barley harvest and ofthe wheat harvest;. andAnd she dweltlived with her mother in law.
3:1	AndThen Naomi her mother in law said untoto her, My daughter, shall I not seek restsecurity for theeyou, that it may be well with theeyou?
3:2	And now is not Boaz our kinsman, with whose maidensmaids thouyou wastwere? Behold, he winnowethwinnows barley toat night in the threshing floor tonight.
3:3	Wash thyselfyourself therefore, and anoint thee,yourself and put thyon raimentyour uponbest theeclothes, and getgo thee down to the threshing floor,; but makedo not thyselfmake yourself known untoto the man, until he shallhas havefinished done eating and drinking.
3:4	And it shall be, when he liethlies down, that thouyou shaltshall marknotice the place where he shall lielies, and thouyou shaltshall go in, and uncover his feet, and laylie thee down; andthen he will tell theeyou what thouyou shaltshall do.
3:5	And she said untoto her, All that thouyou sayestsay I will do.
3:6	AndSo she went down untoto the threshing floor, and did according to all that her mother in law badehad commanded her.
3:7	AndWhen when Boaz had eaten and drunk, and his heart was merry, he went to lie down at the end of the heap of grain:; and she came softlysecretly, and uncovered his feet, and laidlay her down.
3:8	And it camehappened toin passthe atmiddle midnight,of the night that the man was afraid,startled and turnedbent himselfforward; and, behold, a woman laywas lying at his feet.
3:9	And he said, Who artare thouyou? And she answered, I am Ruth thyyour handmaid:maid. So spread thereforeyour thycovering skirt over thyyour handmaid;maid, for thouyou artare a nearclose kinsmanrelative.
3:10	AndThen he said, BlessedMay you be thoublessed of Jehovahthe Lord, my daughter:. thouYou hasthave showedshown moreyour last kindness into thebe latterbetter end than at the beginning,first inasmuchby asnot thougoing followedstafter not young men, whether poor or rich.
3:11	And now, my daughter, feardo not; fear. I will do tofor theeyou allwhatever thatyou thouask, sayest; for all themy citypeople ofin mythe peoplecity doth know that thouyou artare a worthywoman womanof excellence.
3:12	And now it is true that I am a nearclose kinsmanrelative; howbeithowever, there is a kinsmanrelative nearercloser than I.
3:13	TarryRemain this night, and itwhen shallmorning be in the morningcomes, that if he will performredeem unto thee the part of a kinsmanyou, wellgood; let him doredeem theyou. kinsmansBut part: but if he willdoes not dowish theto partredeem of a kinsman to theeyou, then will I dowill theredeem part of a kinsman to theeyou, as Jehovahthe liveth:Lord lielives. Lie down until the morning.
3:14	AndSo she lay at his feet until the morning: and she rose up before one could discernrecognize another.; Forand he said, Let it not be known that the woman came to the threshing floor.
3:15	AndAgain he said, BringGive me the mantlecloak that is uponon thee,you and hold it;. andSo she held it;, and he measured six measures of barley, and laid it on her:. andThen heshe went into the city.
3:16	And when she came to her mother in law, she said, WhoHow artdid thouit go, my daughter? And she told her all that the man had done tofor her.
3:17	And she said, These six measures of barley he gave heto me;, for he said, GoDo not emptygo untoto thyyour mother ininlaw lawempty handed.
3:18	Then she said she, Sit stillWait, my daughter, until thouyou know how the matter willturns fallout; for the man will not rest, until he havehas finishedsettled theit thing this daytoday.
4:1	Now Boaz went up to the gate, and sat him down there:, and, behold, the nearclose kinsmanrelative of whom Boaz spakespoke camewas passing by;, untoso whom he said, Ho,Turn such a one! turn aside, friend, sit down here. And he turned aside, and sat down.
4:2	And he took ten men of the elders of the city, and said, Sit ye down here. AndSo they sat down.
4:3	AndThen he said untoto the nearclosest kinsmanrelative, Naomi, thatwho ishas come againback outfrom of the countryland of Moab, sellethhas to sell the parcelpiece of land, which wasbelonged to our brother Elimelechs:Elimelech.
4:4	andSo I thought to discloseinform it unto theeyou, saying, Buy it before themthose thatwho sitare sitting here, and before the elders of my people. If thouyou wiltwill redeem it, redeem it:; but if thou wilt not redeem it, then tell me, that I may know; for there is noneno one but you to redeem it, besides thee; and I am after theeyou. And he said, I will redeem it.
4:5	Then Boaz said Boaz, WhatOn the day thouyou buyestbuy the field offrom the hand of Naomi, thouyou must buy it also ofacquire Ruth the Moabitess, the wifewidow of the deaddeceased, in order to raise up the name of the deaddeceased uponon his inheritance.
4:6	And the nearclosest kinsmanrelative said, I cannot redeem it for myself, lest I marjeopardize minemy own inheritance:. takeRedeem thouit for yourself; you may have my right of redemption, on thee; for I cannot redeem it.
4:7	Now this was the custom in former timetimes in Israel concerning redeemingthe redemption and concerningthe exchanging,exchange of land to confirm allany thingsmatter: a man drewremoved off his shoe,sandal and gave it to his neighboranother; and this was the manner of attestation in Israel.
4:8	So the nearclosest kinsmanrelative said untoto Boaz, Buy it for thyselfyourself. And he drewremoved off his shoesandal.
4:9	AndThen Boaz said untoto the elders, and unto all the people, YeYou are witnesses thistoday day, that I have bought allfrom thatthe washand Elimelechs,of andNaomi all that wasbelonged Chilionsto Elimelech and Mahlons,all ofthat thebelonged handto ofChilion Naomiand Mahlon.
4:10	Moreover, I have acquired Ruth the Moabitess, the wifewidow of Mahlon, have I purchased to be my wife, in order to raise up the name of the deaddeceased uponon his inheritance, so that the name of the deaddeceased bemay not be cut off from among his brethren,brothers andor from the gatecourt of his birth place:; yeyou are witnesses this daytoday.
4:11	And all the people thatwho were in the gatecourt, and the elders, said, We are witnesses. JehovahMay the Lord make the woman thatwho is comecoming into thyyour househome like Rachel and like Leah, whichboth twoof didwhom buildbuilt the house of Israel:; and domay thouyou worthilyachieve wealth in Ephrathah, and bebecome famous in Beth lehem:Bethlehem.
4:12	andMoreover, letmay thyyour house be like the house of Perez, whom Tamar barebore untoto Judah, ofthrough the seedoffspring which Jehovahthe Lord shall give theeyou ofby this young woman.
4:13	So Boaz took Ruth, and she became his wife;, and he went in untoto her,. andAnd Jehovahthe gaveLord enabled her conceptionto conceive, and she baregave birth to a son.
4:14	AndThen the women said untoto Naomi, Blessed beis Jehovah,the Lord who hathhas not left theeyou this day without a nearredeemer kinsman;today, and letmay his name bebecome famous in Israel.
4:15	AndMay he shallalso be untoto theeyou a restorer of life, and a nourishersustainer of thineyour old age,; for thyyour daughter in law, who lovethloves thee,you whoand is better to theeyou than seven sons, hathhas bornegiven birth to him.
4:16	AndThen Naomi took the child, and laid ithim in her bosomlap, and became his nurse unto it.
4:17	And the neighbor women her neighbors gave ithim a name, saying, ThereA isson ahas sonbeen born to Naomi;! andSo they callednamed hishim name Obed:. heHe is the father of Jesse, the father of David.
4:18	Now these are the generations of Perez: to Perez begatwas born Hezron,
4:19	and to Hezron begatwas born Ram, and to Ram, begat Amminadab,
4:20	and to Amminadab begatwas born Nahshon, and to Nahshon, begat Salmon,
4:21	and to Salmon begatwas born Boaz, and to Boaz, begat Obed,
4:22	and to Obed begatwas born Jesse, and to Jesse, begat David.