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\par }\ChapOne{1}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Now
there
came
a
time,
in
the
days
of
the
judges,
when
there
was no food
in
the
land.
And
a
certain
man
went
from Beth-lehem-judah,
he
and
his
wife
and
his
two
sons,
to make
a living-place
in
the
country
of
Moab.
\VS{2}And
the
name
of
the
man
was
Elimelech,
and
the
name
of
his
wife
Naomi,
and
the
name
of
his
two
sons
Mahlon
and
Chilion,
Ephrathites
of Beth-lehem-judah.
And
they
came
into
the
country
of
Moab,
and
were
there
for
some
time.
\VS{3}And
Elimelech, Naomi's
husband,
came
to
his end;
and only
her
two
sons
were
with
her.
\VS{4}And
they
took
two
women
of
Moab
as
their
wives:
the
name
of
the
one
was
Orpah,
and
the
name
of
the
other
Ruth;
and
they
went
on
living
there
for
about
ten
years.
\VS{5}And
Mahlon
and
Chilion
came
to
their end;
and
the
woman
was without
her
two
sons
and
her
husband.
\VS{6}So
she
and
her
daughters-in-law
got ready
to
go
back
from
the
country
of
Moab,
for news
had
come
to
her
in
the
country
of
Moab
that
the
Lord,
in
mercy
for
his
people,
had
given
them
food.
\VS{7}And
she
went
out
of
the
place
where
she
was,
and
her
two
daughters-in-law
with
her;
and
they
went
on
their
way
to
go
back
to
the
land
of
Judah.
\VS{8}And
Naomi
said
to
her
two
daughters-in-law,
Go
back
to
your mothers'
houses:
may
the
Lord
be good
to
you
as
you
have
been good
to
the
dead
and
to
me:
\VS{9}May
the
Lord
give
you
rest
in
the
houses
of
your
husbands.
Then she
gave
them
a kiss;
and
they
were
weeping
bitterly.
\VS{10}And
they
said
to
her, No,
but
we
will
go
back
with
you
to
your
people.
\VS{11}But
Naomi
said,
Go
back,
my
daughters;
why
will
you
come
with
me?
Have
I
more
sons
in
my
body,
to
become
your
husbands?
\VS{12}Go
back,
my
daughters,
and
go
on
your way;
I
am
so
old
now
that
I
may
not
have
another
husband.
If
I
said,
I
have hopes,
if
I
had
a
husband
tonight,
and
might
have
sons,
\VS{13}Would
you keep
yourselves
till
they
were
old
enough?
would
you keep
from
having
husbands
for
them?
No,
my
daughters;
but
I
am
very sad
for
you
that
the
hand
of
the
Lord
is
against
me.
\VS{14}Then
again
they were
weeping;
and
Orpah gave
her
mother-in-law
a kiss, but
Ruth would
not
be parted
from
her.
\VS{15}And Naomi
said,
See,
your
sister-in-law
has
gone
back
to
her
people
and
to
her
gods:
go
back
after
your
sister-in-law.
\VS{16}But
Ruth
said,
Give
up requesting
me
to
go
away
from
you,
or
to
go
back
without
you:
for
where
you
go
I
will
go;
and
where
you
take
your rest
I
will
take
my rest;
your
people
will
be
my
people,
and
your
God
my
God.
\VS{17}Wherever
death comes
to
you,
death
will come
to
me,
and
there
will
be
my last resting-place;
the
Lord
do
so
to
me
and
more
if
we
are
parted
by anything
but
death.
\VS{18}And
when
she
saw
that
Ruth
was
strong
in
her purpose
to go
with
her
she
said
no
more.
\VS{19}So
the
two
of
them
went
on
till
they
came
to Beth-lehem.
And
when
they
came
to Beth-lehem
all
the
town
was
moved
about
them,
and
they
said,
Is
this
Naomi?
\VS{20}And
she
said
to
them,
Do
not
let
my
name
be
Naomi,
but
Mara,
for
the Ruler
of
all
has
given
me
a
bitter fate.
\VS{21}I
went
out
full,
and
the
Lord
has
sent
me
back
again
with
nothing;
why
do
you
give
me
the
name
Naomi, seeing
that
the
Lord
has
given witness against
me,
and
the Ruler
of all
has
sent sorrow
on
me?
\VS{22}So
Naomi
came
back
out
of
the
country
of
Moab,
and
Ruth
the
Moabitess,
her
daughter-in-law,
with
her;
and
they
came
to Beth-lehem
in
the
first days
of
the grain-cutting.

\par }\Chap{2}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
Naomi
had
a relation
of
her
husband,
a
man
of
wealth,
of
the
family
of
Elimelech;
and
his
name
was
Boaz.
\VS{2}And
Ruth
the
Moabitess
said
to
Naomi,
Now
let
me
go
into
the
field
and take
up
the
heads
of
grain
after
him
in
whose
eyes
I
may
have
grace.
And
she
said
to
her,
Go,
my
daughter.
\VS{3}And
she
went,
and
came
and
took
up
the heads
of grain
in
the
field
after
the cutters;
and
by
chance
she
went
into
that part
of
the
field
which
was
the
property
of
Boaz,
who
was
of
the
family
of
Elimelech.
\VS{4}And
Boaz
came
from Beth-lehem,
and
said
to
the grain-cutters,
The
Lord
be
with
you.
And
they made
answer,
The
Lord
give
you
his
blessing.
\VS{5}Then
Boaz
said
to
his
servant
who
was
in
authority
over
the cutters,
Whose
girl
is
this?
\VS{6}And
the
servant
who
was
in
authority
over
the cutters
said,
It
is
a
Moabite
girl
who
came
back
with
Naomi
out
of
the
country
of
Moab;
\VS{7}And
she
said
to
me,
Let
me
come
into
the grain-field
and
take
up
the grain
after
the cutters.
So
she
came,
and
has
been
here
from
morning
till
now, without resting
even
for
a minute.
\VS{8}Then
said
Boaz
to
Ruth,
Give ear
to
me,
my
daughter:
do
not
go
to
take
up
the grain
in
another
field,
or
go
away
from
here,
but
keep
here
by
my
young
women:
\VS{9}Keep
your
eyes
on
the
field
they
are cutting,
and
go
after
them;
have
I
not
given
orders
to
the
young
men
not
to
put
a hand
on
you?
And
when
you
are
in need
of
drink
go
to
the
vessels
and
take
of
what
the
young
men
have
put
there.
\VS{10}Then
she
went
down
on
her
face
to
the
earth,
and
said
to
him,
Why
have
I
grace
in
your
eyes,
that
you
give
attention
to
me, seeing
I
am
from
a strange
people?
\VS{11}And
Boaz answering
said
to
her,
I
have
had
news
of
everything
you
have
done
for
your
mother-in-law
after
the
death
of
your
husband;
how
you
went
away
from
your
father
and
mother
and
the
land
of
your
birth,
and
came
to
a
people
who
are strange
to
you.
\VS{12}The
Lord
give
you
a
reward
for
what
you
have
done,
and
may
a
full
reward
be given
to
you
by
the
Lord,
the
God
of
Israel,
under
whose
wings
you
have
come
to
take cover.
\VS{13}Then
she
said,
May
I
have
grace
in
your
eyes,
my
lord,
for
you
have given
me
comfort,
and
you
have
said kind words
to
your
servant,
though
I
am
not
like
one
of
your
servants.
\VS{14}And
at meal-time
Boaz
said
to
her,
Come
here,
and
take
some
of
the
bread,
and
put
your bit
into
the wine.
And
she
took
her
seat
among
the grain-cutters:
and
he
gave
her dry
grain,
and
she
took
it,
and
there
was
more
than
enough
for
her
meal.
\VS{15}And
when
she
got ready
to
take
up
the grain,
Boaz
gave
his
young
men
orders,
saying,
Let
her
take
it
even
from
among
the cut grain,
and
say
nothing
to
her.
\VS{16}And
let
some heads
of grain
be pulled
out
of
what
has
been corded
up,
and dropped
for
her
to take,
and
let
no sharp word
be said
to
her.
\VS{17}So
she
went
on getting together
the heads
of grain
till
evening;
and
after crushing
out
the seed
it
came
to
about
an
ephah
of grain.
\VS{18}And
she
took
it
up
and
went
into
the
town;
and
she
let
her
mother-in-law
see
what
she
had
got,
and
after
taking
enough
for herself
she
gave
her
the
rest.
\VS{19}And
her
mother-in-law
said
to
her,
Where
did
you
take
up
the grain
today,
and
where
were
you working?
May
a
blessing
be
on
him
who
gave
such attention
to
you.
And
she
gave
her
mother-in-law
an account
of
where
she
had
been working,
and
said,
The
name
of
the
man
with
whom
I
was working
today
is
Boaz.
\VS{20}And
Naomi
said
to
her
daughter-in-law,
May
the
blessing
of
the
Lord,
who
has
at
all times
been kind
to
the
living
and
to
the
dead,
be
on
him.
And
Naomi
said
to
her,
The
man
is
of
our
family,
one
of
our
near relations.
\VS{21}And
Ruth
the
Moabitess
said,
Truly,
he
said
to
me, Keep
near
my
young
men
till
all
my
grain
is cut.
\VS{22}And
Naomi
said
to
Ruth,
her
daughter-in-law,
It
is
better,
my
daughter,
for
you
to
go
out
with
his servant-girls,
so
that
no danger
may
come
to
you
in
another
field.
\VS{23}So
she kept
near
the servant-girls
of
Boaz
to
take
up
the
grain
till
the cutting
of
the early
grain
and
the cutting
of
the late
grain
were
ended;
and
she went
on
living
with
her
mother-in-law.

\par }\Chap{3}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
Naomi,
her
mother-in-law,
said
to
her,
My
daughter, am
I
not
to get
you
a resting-place
where
you
may
be
in comfort?
\VS{2}And
now,
is
there
not
Boaz,
our relation,
with
whose
young
women
you
were?
See,
tonight
he
is separating
the grain
from
the waste
in
his grain-floor.
\VS{3}So
take
a bath,
and,
after rubbing
your body
with sweet oil,
put
on
your best robe,
and
go
down
to
the grain-floor;
but
do
not
let
him
see
you
till
he
has
come
to
the
end
of
his meal.
\VS{4}But
see
to
it,
when
he
goes
to
rest,
that
you
take
note
of
the
place
where
he
is sleeping,
and
go
in
there,
and, uncovering
his
feet,
take
your
place
by
him;
and
he
will say
what
you
are
to
do.
\VS{5}And
she
said,
I
will
do
all
you
say.
\VS{6}So
she
went
down
to
the grain-floor
and
did
all
her
mother-in-law
had said
to
her.
\VS{7}Now
when
Boaz
had
taken meat
and
drink,
and
his
heart
was
glad,
he
went
to
take
his
rest
at
the
end
of
the mass
of
grain;
then
she
came softly
and, uncovering
his
feet,
went
to
rest.
\VS{8}Now
in
the
middle
of
the
night,
the
man awaking
from
his
sleep
in
fear,
and lifting
himself
up,
saw
a
woman stretched
at
his
feet.
\VS{9}And
he
said,
Who
are
you?
And
she answering
said,
I
am
your
servant
Ruth: take
your
servant
as wife,
for
you
are
a
near relation.
\VS{10}And
he
said,
May
the
Lord give
you
his
blessing,
my
daughter:
even
better
than what
you did
at
the
first
is
this
last kind act
you
have
done,
in
not going
after
young
men,
with
or
without wealth.
\VS{11}And
now,
my
daughter,
have
no
fear;
I
will
do
for
you
whatever
you
say:
for
it
is
clear
to
all
my townspeople
that
you
are
a
woman
of virtue.
\VS{12}Now
it
is
true
that
I
am
a
near relation:
but
there
is
a relation nearer
than
I.
\VS{13}Take
your
rest
here
tonight;
and
in
the
morning,
if
he
will
do
for
you
what
it
is
right
for
a relation
to
do,
very
well,
let
him
do
so:
but
if
he
will
not,
then
by
the
living
Lord
I
myself
will
do
so.
\VS{14}And
she
took
her
rest
at
his
feet
till
the
morning:
and
she
got
up
before
it
was light enough
for
one
to
see
another.
And
he
said,
Let
it
not
come
to anyone's
knowledge
that
the
woman
came
to
the grain-floor.
\VS{15}And
he
said,
Take
your robe, stretching
it
out
in
your hands:
and
she
did
so,
and
he
took
six measures
of grain
and
put
them
into
it,
and
gave
it
her
to
take:
and
she
went
back
to
the
town.
\VS{16}And
when
she
came
back
her
mother-in-law
said
to
her,
How
did
it
go
with
you,
my
daughter?
And
she
gave
her
an
account
of
all
the
man
had
done
to
her.
\VS{17}And
she
said,
He
gave
me
these
six measures
of grain,
saying,
Do
not
go
back
to
your
mother-in-law
with
nothing
in
your hands.
\VS{18}Then
she
said,
Do
nothing
now,
my
daughter,
till
you
see
what
will
come
of
this;
for
the
man
will
take
no
rest
till
he
has
put
this
thing
through.

\par }\Chap{4}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
Boaz
went
up
to
the public
place
of
the
town,
and
took
his
seat
there:
and
the
near relation
of
whom
he
had
been
talking
came
by;
and
Boaz, crying
out
to
him
by
name,
said,
Come
and be
seated
here.
And
he
came
and
was
seated.
\VS{2}Then
he
got
ten
of
the responsible
men
of
the
town,
and
said,
Be
seated
here.
And
they
took
their seats.
\VS{3}Then
he
said
to
the near relation,
Naomi,
who
has
come
back
from
the
country
of
Moab,
is offering
for
a price
that bit
of
land
which
was
our
brother Elimelech's:
\VS{4}And
it
was
in
my
mind
to
give
you
the chance
of taking
it,
with
the approval
of
those
seated
here
and
of
the
responsible
men
of
my
people.
If
you
are ready
to
do
what
it
is right
for
a relation
to
do,
then
do
it:
but
if
you
will
not
do
it,
say
so
to
me
now;
for
there
is
no
one
who
has
the right
to
do
it
but
you,
and
after
you
myself.
And
he
said,
I
will
do
it.
\VS{5}Then
Boaz
said,
On
the
day
when
you
take
this
field,
you
will
have
to
take
with
it
Ruth,
the
Moabitess,
the
wife
of
the
dead,
so
that
you
may keep
the
name
of
the
dead living
in
his
heritage.
\VS{6}And
the
near relation
said,
I am
not
able
to
do
the relation's
part,
for
fear
of damaging
the
heritage
I
have:
you
may
do
it
in
my place,
for
I am
not
able
to
do
it myself.
\VS{7}Now,
in earlier
times
this
was
the
way
in
Israel
when property
was
taken
over
by
a
near relation,
or
when
there
was
a change
of owner.
To
make
the
exchange
certain
one
man
took
off
his
shoe
and
gave
it
to
the
other;
and
this
was
a witness
in
Israel.
\VS{8}So
the near relation
said
to
Boaz, Take
it
for yourself.
And
he took off
his
shoe.
\VS{9}Then
Boaz
said
to
the responsible
men
and
to
all
the
people,
You
are
witnesses
today
that
I
have taken
at
a price
from
Naomi
all
the
property
which
was Elimelech's,
and
everything
which
was Chilion's
and Mahlon's.
\VS{10}And, further,
I
have
taken
Ruth,
the
Moabitess,
who
was
the
wife
of
Mahlon,
to
be
my
wife,
to keep
the
name
of
the
dead
man living
in
his
heritage,
so
that
his
name
may
not
be
cut
off
from
among
his
countrymen,
and
from
the
memory
of
his
town:
you
are
witnesses
this
day.
\VS{11}And
all
the
people
who
were
in
the public
place,
and
the
responsible
men,
said,
We
are
witnesses.
May
the
Lord
make
this
woman,
who
is
about
to
come
into
your
house,
like
Rachel
and
Leah,
which
two
were
the
builders
of
the
house
of
Israel:
and
may
you
have
wealth
in
Ephrathah,
and
be
great
in Beth-lehem;
\VS{12}May
your
family
be
like
the
family
of
Perez,
the son
whom
Tamar
gave
to
Judah,
from
the
offspring
which
the
Lord
may
give
you
by
this
young
woman.
\VS{13}So
Boaz
took
Ruth
and she
became
his
wife;
and
he
went
in
to
her,
and
the
Lord
made
her
with
child
and she
gave
birth
to
a
son.
\VS{14}And
the
women
said
to
Naomi,
A
blessing
on
the
Lord,
who
has
not
let
you
be
this
day
without
a
near relation,
and
may
his
name
be great
in
Israel.
\VS{15}He
will
be
a giver
of new
life
to
you,
and
your comforter
when
you
are
old,
for
your
daughter-in-law,
who,
in
her
love
for
you,
is
better
than
seven
sons,
has
given
birth
to
him.
\VS{16}And
Naomi
took
the
child
and
put
her
arms round
it,
and she
took
care
of
it.
\VS{17}And
the
women
who
were
her neighbours
gave
it
a
name,
saying,
Naomi
has
a
child;
and
they
gave
him
the
name
of
Obed:
he
is
the
father
of
Jesse,
the
father
of
David.
\VS{18}Now
these
are
the
generations
of
Perez:
Perez
became
the
father
of
Hezron;
\VS{19}And
Hezron
became
the
father
of
Ram,
and
Ram
became
the
father
of
Amminadab;
\VS{20}And
Amminadab
became
the
father
of
Nahshon,
and
Nahshon
became
the
father
of
Salmon;
\VS{21}And
Salmon
became
the
father
of
Boaz,
and
Boaz
became
the
father
of
Obed;
\VS{22}And
Obed
became
the
father
of
Jesse,
and
Jesse
became
the
father
of
David.
\par }