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\par }\ChapOne{1}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
it
came
to
pass
in
the
days
when
the
judges
ruled,
that
there
was
a
famine
in
the
land.
And
a
certain
man
went
from Bethlehem-Judah,
to sojourn
in
the
country
of
Moab,
he,
and
his
wife,
and
his
two
sons.
\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 Bethlehem-Judah.
And
they
came
into
the
country
of
Moab,
and
continued
there.
\VS{3}And
Elimelech Naomi's
husband
died;
and
she
was
left,
and
her
two
sons.
\VS{4}And
they
took
them Moabitish
wives;
the
name
of
the
one
was
Orpah,
and
the
name
of
the
second
Ruth:
and
they
abode
there
about
ten
years.
\VS{5}And
Mahlon
and
Chilion
died
also,
both
of
them;
and
the
woman
was
left
of
her
two
children
and
of
her
husband.
\VS{6}And
she
arose,
she
and
her
daughters-in-law,
and
returned
from
the
fields
of
Moab;
for
she
had
heard
in
the
fields
of
Moab
how
that
Jehovah
had
visited
his
people
to
give
them
bread.
\VS{7}Wherefore
she
went
forth
out
of
the
place
where
she
had
been,
and
her
two
daughters-in-law
with
her;
and
they
went
on
the
way
to
return
to
the
land
of
Judah.
\VS{8}And
Naomi
said
to
her
two
daughters-in-law,
Go,
return
each
to
her mother's
house.
Jehovah
deal kindly
with
you,
as ye
have dealt
with
the
dead
and
with
me.
\VS{9}Jehovah
grant
you
that ye
may
find
rest,
each
in
the
house
of
her
husband.
And she
kissed
them;
and
they
lifted
up
their
voice
and
wept.
\VS{10}And
they
said
to
her,
We
will
certainly
return
with thee
to thy
people.
\VS{11}And
Naomi
said,
Return,
my
daughters:
why
will ye
go
with
me?
Are
there
yet
sons
in
my
womb,
that
they
could
be
your
husbands?
\VS{12}Return,
my
daughters,
go;
for
I
am
too
old
to
have
a
husband.
If
I
should
say,
I
have
hope,
should
I
even
have
a
husband to-night,
and
should
I
also
bear
sons,
\VS{13}would ye wait
on
that
account
till
they
were
grown?
Would ye stay
on
that
account
from
having
husbands?
No,
my
daughters,
for
I
am
in
much
more bitterness
than
you;
for
the
hand
of
Jehovah
is
gone
out
against
me.
\VS{14}And
they
lifted
up
their
voice
and
wept
again.
And
Orpah
kissed
her
mother-in-law, but
Ruth clave
to
her.
\VS{15}And
she
said,
Behold, thy
sister-in-law
is
gone
back
to
her
people
and
to
her
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Elohim|strong="H0430"}gods:
return
after thy
sister-in-law.
\VS{16}And
Ruth
said,
Do
not intreat
me
to
leave thee,
to
return
from [following]
after thee;
for whither thou goest
I
will
go,
and
where thou lodgest
I
will lodge: thy
people
shall
be
my
people,
and thy
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 1:16 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
my
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Elohim|strong="H0430"}God;
\VS{17}where thou diest
will
I
die,
and
there
will
I
be
buried.
Jehovah
do
so
to
me,
and
more
also,
if aught
but
death part
me
and thee!
\VS{18}And
when
she
saw
that
she
was stedfastly minded
to go
with
her,
she left off
speaking
to
her.
\VS{19}And
they
two
went
until
they
came
to
Bethlehem.
And
it
came
to
pass,
when
they
came
to
Bethlehem,
that
all
the
city
was
moved
about
them,
and
the [women]
said,
Is
this
Naomi?
\VS{20}And
she
said
to
them,
Call
me
not
Naomi —
call
me
Mara;
for
the
Almighty
has
dealt
very
bitterly
with
me.
\VS{21}I
went
out
full,
and
Jehovah
has
brought
me
home
again
empty.
Why
do ye
call
me
Naomi, seeing
Jehovah
has
brought
me low,
and
the
Almighty
has afflicted
me?
\VS{22}So
Naomi
returned,
and
Ruth
the
Moabitess,
her
daughter-in-law,
with
her,
who
returned
out
of
the
fields
of
Moab;
and
they
came
to
Bethlehem
in
the
beginning
of
the barley-harvest.

\par }\Chap{2}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
Naomi
had
a relation
of
her husband's,
a
mighty
man
of
wealth,
of
the
family
of
Elimelech,
and
his
name
was
Boaz.
\VS{2}And
Ruth
the
Moabitess
said
to
Naomi,
Let
me,
I
pray,
go
to
the
field
and
glean
among
the
ears
of corn
after [him]
in
whose
sight
I
shall
find favour.
And
she
said
to
her,
Go,
my
daughter.
\VS{3}And
she
went;
and
she
came
and
gleaned
in
the
fields
after
the reapers;
and
she chanced
to light
on
an allotment
of
Boaz,
who
was
of
the
family
of
Elimelech.
\VS{4}And
behold,
Boaz
came
from
Bethlehem;
and
he
said
to
the reapers,
Jehovah
be
with
you!
And
they
said
to
him,
Jehovah
bless thee!
\VS{5}And
Boaz
said
to
his
servant
that
was
set
over
the reapers,
Whose maiden
is
this?
\VS{6}And
the
servant
that
was
set
over
the reapers
answered
and
said,
It
is
the Moabitish maiden
who
came
back
with
Naomi
out
of
the
fields
of
Moab;
\VS{7}and
she
said,
I
pray
you,
let
me
glean
and
gather
among
the sheaves
after
the reapers.
And
she
came,
and
has
continued
from
the
morning
until
now:
her
sitting
in
the
house
has
been
little
as
yet.
\VS{8}And
Boaz
said
to
Ruth, Hearest thou
not,
my
daughter?
Go
not
to
glean
in
another
field,
neither
go
from
here,
but
keep
here
with
my
maidens.
\VS{9}Let thine
eyes
be
on
the
field
which
is being reaped,
and
go thou
after
them;
have
I
not
charged
the
young
men
not
to
touch thee?
And
when thou art athirst,
go
to
the
vessels
and
drink
of
what
the
young
men
draw.
\VS{10}Then
she
fell
on
her
face,
and
bowed
herself
to
the
ground,
and
said
to
him,
Why
have
I
found favour
in thine
eyes,
that thou shouldest
regard
me, seeing
I
am
a
foreigner?
\VS{11}And
Boaz
answered
and
said
to
her,
It
has
fully
been shewn
me,
all
that thou hast
done
to thy
mother-in-law
since
the
death
of thy
husband;
and
how thou hast
left thy
father
and thy
mother,
and
the
land
of thy nativity,
and art come
to
a
people
that thou hast
not
known heretofore.
\VS{12}Jehovah recompense thy
work,
and
let thy
reward
be
full
from
Jehovah
the
\FTNT{°}{{\FR 2:12 }

Elohim|strong="H0430"}God
of
Israel,
under
whose
wings thou art
come
to
take
refuge.
\VS{13}And
she
said,
Let
me
find favour
in thine
eyes,
my
lord;
for
that thou hast
comforted
me,
and
for
that thou hast
spoken
kindly
to thy handmaid,
though
I
am
not
like
one
of thy handmaidens.
\VS{14}And
Boaz
said
to
her
at mealtime,
Come hither
and
eat
of
the
bread,
and
dip thy
morsel
in
the
vinegar.
And
she
sat
beside
the reapers;
and
he reached
her
parched corn,
and
she
ate
and
was sufficed,
and
reserved [some].
\VS{15}And
when
she
rose
up
to
glean,
Boaz
commanded
his
young
men,
saying,
Let
her
glean
even
among
the sheaves,
and ye
shall
not reproach
her.
\VS{16}And ye
shall
also sometimes draw
out
for
her [some ears]
out
of
the handfuls,
and
leave
them
that
she
may
glean,
and
rebuke
her
not.
\VS{17}And
she
gleaned
in
the
field
until
even,
and
beat
out
what
she
had
gleaned;
and
it
was
about
an
ephah
of
barley.
\VS{18}And
she
took [it]
up,
and
came
into
the
city,
and
her
mother-in-law
saw
what
she
had
gleaned;
and
she
brought
forth
and
gave
to
her
that
which
she
had
reserved
after
she
was sufficed.
\VS{19}And
her
mother-in-law
said
to
her,
Where hast thou
gleaned to-day?
and
where hast thou wrought?
Blessed
be
he
that
did
regard thee!
And
she
told
her
mother-in-law
with
whom
she
had wrought,
and
said,
The man's
name
with
whom
I wrought to-day
is
Boaz.
\VS{20}And
Naomi
said
to
her
daughter-in-law,
Blessed
be
he
of
Jehovah,
who
has
not
left off
his
kindness
to
the
living
and
to
the
dead!
And
Naomi
said
to
her,
The
man
is
near
of kin
to
us,
one
of
those
who
have
the right
of
our redemption.
\VS{21}And
Ruth
the
Moabitess
said,
He
said
to
me
also, Thou shalt keep
with
my
young
men
until
they
have
ended
all
my
harvest.
\VS{22}And
Naomi
said
to
Ruth
her
daughter-in-law,
It
is
good,
my
daughter,
that thou
go
out
with
his
maidens,
that
they
meet thee
not
in
any
other
field.
\VS{23}So
she kept
with
the
maidens
of
Boaz
to
glean,
until
the
end
of
the barley-harvest
and
of
the wheat-harvest.
And
she
dwelt
with
her
mother-in-law.

\par }\Chap{3}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
Naomi
her
mother-in-law
said
to
her,
My
daughter,
shall
I
not
seek
rest
for thee,
that
it
may
be
well
with thee?
\VS{2}And
now,
is
not
Boaz
of
our kindred,
with
whose
maidens thou wast?
Behold,
he
is
winnowing
barley
in
the threshing-floor to-night.
\VS{3}Wash thyself
therefore,
and
anoint thyself,
and
put thy raiment
upon thee,
and
go
down
to
the
floor;
make
not thyself
known
to
the
man,
until
he
shall
have done
eating
and
drinking.
\VS{4}And
it
shall
be,
when
he
lies
down,
that thou shalt mark
the
place
where
he
shall
have
lain
down,
and thou shalt
go
in,
and
uncover
his
feet,
and
lay thyself
down;
and
he
will shew thee
what thou shalt
do.
\VS{5}And
she
said
to
her,
All
that thou sayest
will
I
do.
\VS{6}And
she
went
down
to
the
floor,
and
did according
to
all
that
her
mother-in-law
had bidden
her.
\VS{7}And
Boaz
ate
and
drank,
and
his
heart
was
merry,
and
he
went
to
lie
down
at
the
end
of
the
heap
of corn.
Then
she
went softly,
and
uncovered
his
feet,
and
laid herself
down.
\VS{8}And
it
came
to
pass
at midnight,
that
the
man
was
startled,
and
turned
himself;
and
behold,
a
woman
lay
at
his
feet.
\VS{9}And
he
said,
Who art thou?
And
she
answered,
I
am
Ruth, thy
handmaid:
spread thy
skirt
over thy
handmaid;
for thou hast
the right
of redemption.
\VS{10}And
he
said,
Blessed
be thou
of
Jehovah,
my
daughter! Thou hast shewn
more
kindness
at
the
end
than
at
the
first, inasmuch
as thou followedst
not
young
men,
whether
poor
or
rich.
\VS{11}And
now,
my
daughter,
fear
not:
all
that thou sayest
will
I
do
to thee;
for
all
the
gate
of
my
people
knows
that thou art
a
woman
of worth.
\VS{12}And
now,
truly
I
am
one
that
has
the
right
of redemption,
yet
there
is
one
that
has
the
right
of redemption
who
is nearer
than
I.
\VS{13}Stay
over to-night,
and
it
shall
be
in
the
morning,
if
he
will
redeem thee,
well —
let
him
redeem;
but
if
he
like
not
to
redeem thee,
then
will
I
redeem thee, [as]
Jehovah liveth.
Lie
down
until
the
morning.
\VS{14}And
she
lay
at
his
feet
until
the
morning;
and
she
rose
up
before
one
could
know
another.
And
he
said,
Let
it
not
be
known
that
a
woman
came
into
the threshing-floor.
\VS{15}And
he
said,
Bring
the
cloak
that thou hast
upon thee,
and
hold
it.
And
she
held
it,
and
he
measured
six [measures]
of
barley,
and
laid [it]
on
her;
and
he
went
into
the
city.
\VS{16}And
she
came
to
her
mother-in-law;
and
she
said,
Who art thou,
my
daughter?
And
she
told
her
all
that
the
man
had
done
to
her.
\VS{17}And
she
said,
These
six [measures]
of
barley
gave
he
me;
for
he
said
to
me,
Go
not
empty
to thy
mother-in-law.
\VS{18}Then
she
said,
Be
still,
my
daughter,
until thou
know
how
the
matter
will
fall;
for
the
man
will
not
rest
until
he
have
completed
the
matter
this
day.

\par }\Chap{4}{\PP \VerseOne{1}And
Boaz
went
up
to
the
gate,
and
sat
down
there.
And
behold,
he
that
had
the
right
of redemption,
of
whom
Boaz
had
spoken,
came
by.
And
he
said, Thou,
such
a
one,
turn
aside,
sit
down
here.
And
he
turned
aside
and
sat
down.
\VS{2}And
he
took
ten
men
of
the
elders
of
the
city,
and
said,
Sit
down
here.
And
they
sat
down.
\VS{3}And
he
said
to
him
that
had
the right
of redemption:
Naomi,
who
is
come
back out
of
the
country
of
Moab,
sells
the allotment
that
was
our
brother Elimelech's.
\VS{4}And
I
thought
I
would apprise thee
of
it
and
say,
Buy [it]
in
the
presence
of
the
inhabitants,
and
in
the
presence
of
the
elders
of
my
people.
If thou wilt
redeem [it],
redeem;
but
if thou wilt
not
redeem,
tell
me,
that
I
may
know;
for
there
is
none
to
redeem
besides thee;
and
I
am
after thee.
And
he
said,
I
will
redeem [it].
\VS{5}And
Boaz
said,
On
the
day thou buyest
the
field
of
the
hand
of
Naomi, thou
must
buy [it]
also
of
Ruth
the
Moabitess,
the
wife
of
the
dead,
to
raise
up
the
name
of
the
dead
upon
his
inheritance.
\VS{6}And
he
that
had
the
right
of
redemption
said,
I
cannot
redeem [it]
for myself,
lest
I mar mine own
inheritance.
Redeem thou
for thyself
what
I
should
redeem,
for
I
cannot
redeem [it].
\VS{7}Now
this [was
the
custom]
in
former
time
in
Israel
concerning
redemption
and
concerning
exchange,
to
confirm
the
whole
matter:
a
man
drew
off
his
sandal,
and
gave
it
to
his neighbour,
and
this
was
the [mode
of]
attestation
in
Israel.
\VS{8}And
he
that
had
the right
of redemption
said
to
Boaz,
Buy
for thyself;
and
he
drew off
his
sandal.
\VS{9}And
Boaz
said
to
the
elders
and
all
the
people, Ye
are
witnesses
this
day,
that
I
have
bought
all
that
was Elimelech's,
and
all
that
was Chilion's
and Mahlon's,
of
the
hand
of
Naomi;
\VS{10}moreover
Ruth
the
Moabitess,
the
wife
of
Mahlon,
have
I
purchased
to
be
my
wife,
to
raise
up
the
name
of
the
dead
upon
his
inheritance,
that
the
name
of
the
dead
be
not
cut
off
from
among
his
brethren
and
from
the
gate
of
his
place: ye
are
witnesses
this
day.
\VS{11}And
all
the
people
that
were
in
the
gate
and
the
elders
said, [We
are]
witnesses.
Jehovah
make
the
woman
that cometh
into thy
house
like
Rachel
and
like
Leah,
which
two
did
build
the
house
of
Israel;
and acquire
power
in Ephratah,
and
make thyself
a
name
in
Bethlehem;
\VS{12}and
let thy
house
become
like
the
house
of Pherez,
whom
Tamar
bore
to
Judah,
of
the
seed
which
Jehovah
shall
give thee
of
this
young
woman.
\VS{13}And
Boaz
took
Ruth,
and she
became
his
wife;
and
he
went
in unto
her,
and
Jehovah
gave
her
conception,
and she
bore
a
son.
\VS{14}And
the
women
said
to
Naomi,
Blessed
be
Jehovah
who hath
not left thee
this
day
without
one
that
has
the right
of redemption,
and
may
his
name
be
famous
in
Israel!
\VS{15}And
he
shall
be
to thee
a
restorer
of thy
life,
and
a nourisher
of thine
old
age;
for thy
daughter-in-law
who
loves thee,
who
is
better
to thee
than
seven
sons,
has
borne
him.
\VS{16}And
Naomi
took
the
child,
and
laid
it
in
her
bosom,
and
became
nurse
to
it.
\VS{17}And
the
women [her] neighbours
gave
it
a
name,
saying, There
is
a
son
born
to
Naomi.
And
they
called
his
name
Obed.
He
is
the
father
of
Jesse,
the
father
of
David.
\VS{18}Now
these
are
the
generations
of Pherez. Pherez
begot
Hezron,
\VS{19}and
Hezron
begot
Ram,
and
Ram
begot
Amminadab,
\VS{20}and
Amminadab
begot
Nahshon,
and
Nahshon
begot
Salmon,
\VS{21}and
Salmon
begot
Boaz,
and
Boaz
begot
Obed,
\VS{22}and
Obed
begot
Jesse,
and
Jesse
begot
David.
\par }