1:1 Now it came return from the to pass in the country of Moab: days when the for she had heard judges ruled, in the country of that there was a Moab how that the famine in the Lord had visited land. And a his people in certain man of giving them Bethlehemjudah bread. went to sojourn 1:7 Wherefore in the country of she went forth Moab, he, and his out of the place wife, and his two where she was, sons. and her two 1:2 And the name daughters in law of the man [was] with her; and Elimelech, and they went on the the name of his way to return wife Naomi, and unto the land of the name of his Judah. two sons Mahlon 1:8 And Naomi and Chilion, said unto her two Ephrathites of daughters in law, Bethlehemjudah. Go, return each And they came to her mother's into the country house: the LORD of Moab, and deal kindly with continued there. you, as ye have 1:3 And dealt with the Elimelech Naomi's dead, and with husband died; and me. she was left, and 1:9 The LORD her two sons. grant you that ye 1:4 And they may find rest, took them wives each [of you] in of the women of the house of her Moab; the name of husband. Then she the one [was] kissed them; and Orpah, and the they lifted up name of the other their voice, and Ruth: and they wept. dwelled there 1:10 And they about ten years. said unto her, 1:5 And Mahlon Surely we will and Chilion died return with thee also both of unto thy people. them; and the 1:11 And Naomi woman was left of said, Turn again, her two sons and my daughters: why her husband. will ye go with 1:6 Then she me? [are] there arose with her yet [any more] daughters in law, sons in my womb, that she might that they may be your husbands? people, and thy 1:12 Turn again, God my God: my daughters, go 1:17 Where thou [your way]; for I diest, will I am too old to die, and there have an husband. will I be buried: If I should say, the LORD do so to I have hope, [if] me, and more I should have an also, [if ought] husband also to but death part night, and should thee and me. also bear sons; 1:18 When she 1:13 Would ye saw that she was tarry for them stedfastly minded till they were to go with her, grown? would ye then she left stay for them speaking unto from having her. husbands? nay, my 1:19 So they two daughters; for it went until they grieveth me much came to for your sakes Bethlehem. And it that the hand of came to pass, the LORD is gone when they were out against me. come to 1:14 And they Bethlehem, that lifted up their all the city was voice, and wept moved about them, again: and Orpah and they said, kissed her mother [Is] this Naomi? in law; but Ruth 1:20 And she clave unto her. said unto them, 1:15 And she Call me not said, Behold, thy Naomi, call me sister in law is Mara: for the gone back unto Almighty hath her people, and dealt very unto her gods: bitterly with me. return thou after thy sister in 1:21 I went out law. full, and the 1:16 And Ruth LORD hath brought said, Entreat me me home again not to leave empty: why [then] thee, [or] to call ye me Naomi, return from seeing the LORD following after hath testified thee: for whither against me, and thou goest, I the Almighty hath will go; and afflicted me? where thou 1:22 So Naomi lodgest, I will returned, and lodge: thy people Ruth the [shall be] my Moabitess, her daughter in law, set over the with her, which reapers, Whose returned out of damsel [is] this? the country of Moab: and they 2:6 And the came to Bethlehem servant that was in the beginning set over the of barley reapers answered harvest. and said, It [is] 2:1 And Naomi the Moabitish had a kinsman of damsel that came her husband's, a back with Naomi mighty man of out of the wealth, of the country of Moab: family of 2:7 And she Elimelech; and said, I pray you, his name [was] let me glean and Boaz. gather after the 2:2 And Ruth the reapers among the Moabitess said sheaves: so she unto Naomi, Let came, and hath me now go to the continued even field, and glean from the morning ears of corn until now, that after [him] in she tarried a whose sight I little in the shall find grace. house. And she said unto 2:8 Then said her, Go, my Boaz unto Ruth, daughter. Hearest thou not, 2:3 And she my daughter? Go went, and came, not to glean in and gleaned in another field, the field after neither go from the reapers: and hence, but abide her hap was to here fast by my light on a part maidens: of the field 2:9 [Let] thine [belonging] unto eyes [be] on the Boaz, who [was] field that they of the kindred of do reap, and go Elimelech. thou after them: 2:4 And, behold, have I not Boaz came from charged the young Bethlehem, and men that they said unto the shall not touch reapers, The LORD thee? and when [be] with you. thou art athirst, And they answered go unto the him, The LORD vessels, and bless thee. drink of [that] 2:5 Then said which the young Boaz unto his men have drawn. servant that was 2:10 Then she fell on her face, said unto her, At and bowed herself mealtime come to the ground, thou hither, and and said unto eat of the bread, him, Why have I and dip thy found grace in morsel in the thine eyes, that vinegar. And she thou shouldest sat beside the take knowledge of reapers: and he me, seeing I [am] reached her a stranger? parched [corn], 2:11 And Boaz and she did eat, answered and said and was sufficed, unto her, It hath and left. fully been showed 2:15 And when me, all that thou she was risen up hast done unto to glean, Boaz thy mother in law commanded his since the death young men, of thine husband: saying, Let her and [how] thou glean even among hast left thy the sheaves, and father and thy reproach her not: mother, and the land of thy 2:16 And let nativity, and art fall also [some] come unto a of the handfuls people which thou of purpose for knewest not her, and leave heretofore. [them], that she 2:12 The LORD may glean [them], recompense thy and rebuke her work, and a full not. reward be given 2:17 So she thee of the LORD gleaned in the God of Israel, field until even, under whose wings and beat out that thou art come to she had gleaned: trust. and it was about 2:13 Then she an ephah of said, Let me find barley. favour in thy 2:18 And she sight, my lord; took [it] up, and for that thou went into the hast comforted city: and her me, and for that mother in law saw thou hast spoken what she had friendly unto gleaned: and she thine handmaid, brought forth, though I be not and gave to her like unto one of that she had thine reserved after handmaidens. she was sufficed. 2:14 And Boaz 2:19 And her maidens of Boaz mother in law to glean unto the said unto her, end of barley Where hast thou harvest and of gleaned to day? wheat harvest; and where and dwelt with wroughtest thou? her mother in blessed be he law. that did take 3:1 Then Naomi knowledge of her mother in law thee. And she said unto her, My showed her mother daughter, shall I in law with whom not seek rest for she had wrought, thee, that it may and said, The be well with man's name with thee? whom I wrought to 3:2 And now [is] day [is] Boaz. not Boaz of our 2:20 And Naomi kindred, with said unto her whose maidens daughter in law, thou wast? Blessed [be] he Behold, he of the LORD, who winnoweth barley hath not left off to night in the his kindness to threshingfloor. the living and to 3:3 Wash thy the dead. And self therefore, Naomi said unto and anoint thee, her, The man [is] and put thy near of kin unto raiment upon us, one of our thee, and get next kinsmen. thee down to the 2:21 And Ruth floor: [but] make the Moabitess not thyself known said, He said unto the man, unto me also, until he shall Thou shalt keep have done eating fast by my young and drinking. men, until they 3:4 And it shall have ended all my be, when he lieth harvest. down, that thou 2:22 And Naomi shalt mark the said unto Ruth place where he her daughter in shall lie, and law, [It is] thou shalt go in, good, my and uncover his daughter, that feet, and lay thou go out with thee down; and he his maidens, that will tell thee they meet thee what thou shalt not in any other do. field. 3:5 And she said 2:23 So she kept unto her, All fast by the that thou sayest unto me I will 3:11 And now, my do. daughter, fear 3:6 And she went not; I will do to down unto the thee all that floor, and did thou requirest: according to all for all the city that her mother of my people doth in law bade her. know that thou 3:7 And when [art] a virtuous Boaz had eaten woman. and drunk, and 3:12 And now it his heart was is true that I merry, he went to [am thy] near lie down at the kinsman: howbeit end of the heap there is a of corn: and she kinsman nearer came softly, and than I. uncovered his 3:13 Tarry this feet, and laid night, and it her down. shall be in the 3:8 And it came morning, [that] to pass at if he will midnight, that perform unto thee the man was the part of a afraid, and kinsman, well; turned himself: let him do the and, behold, a kinsman's part: woman lay at his but if he will feet. not do the part 3:9 And he said, of a kinsman to Who [art] thou? thee, then will I And she answered, do the part of a I [am] Ruth thine kinsman to thee, handmaid: spread [as] the LORD therefore thy liveth: lie down skirt over thine until the handmaid; for morning. thou [art] a near 3:14 And she lay kinsman. at his feet until 3:10 And he the morning: and said, Blessed she rose up [be] thou of the before one could LORD, my know another. And daughter: [for] he said, Let it thou hast showed not be known that more kindness in a woman came into the latter end the floor. than at the 3:15 Also he beginning, said, Bring the inasmuch as thou veil that [thou followedst not hast] upon thee, young men, and hold it. And whether poor or when she held it, rich. he measured six [measures] of 4:3 And he said barley, and laid unto the kinsman, [it] on her: and Naomi, that is she went into the come again out of city. the country of 3:16 And when Moab, selleth a she came to her parcel of land, mother in law, which [was] our she said, Who brother [art] thou, my Elimelech's: daughter? And she 4:4 And I told her all that thought to the man had done advertise thee, to her. saying, Buy [it] 3:17 And she before the said, These six inhabitants, and [measures] of before the elders barley gave he of my people. If me; for he said thou wilt redeem to me, Go not [it], redeem empty unto thy [it]: but if thou mother in law. wilt not redeem 3:18 Then said [it, then] tell she, Sit still, me, that I may my daughter, know: for [there until thou know is] none to how the matter redeem [it] will fall: for beside thee; and the man will not I [am] after be in rest, until thee. And he he have finished said, I will the thing this redeem [it]. day. 4:5 Then said 4:1 Then went Boaz, What day Boaz up to the thou buyest the gate, and sat him field of the hand down there: and, of Naomi, thou behold, the must buy [it] kinsman of whom also of Ruth the Boaz spake came Moabitess, the by; unto whom he wife of the dead, said, Ho, such a to raise up the one! turn aside, name of the dead sit down here. upon his And he turned inheritance. aside, and sat 4:6 And the down. kinsman said, I 4:2 And he took cannot redeem ten men of the [it] for myself, elders of the lest I mar mine city, and said, own inheritance: Sit ye down here. redeem thou my And they sat right to thyself; down. for I cannot redeem [it]. this day. 4:7 Now this 4:11 And all the [was the manner] people that in former time in [were] in the Israel concerning gate, and the redeeming and elders, said, [We concerning are] witnesses. changing, for to The LORD make the confirm all woman that is things; a man come into thine plucked off his house like Rachel shoe, and gave and like Leah, [it] to his which two did neighbour: and build the house this [was] a of Israel: and do testimony in thou worthily in Israel. Ephratah, and be 4:8 Therefore famous in the kinsman said Bethlehem: unto Boaz, Buy 4:12 And let thy [it] for thee. So house be like the he drew off his house of Pharez, shoe. whom Tamar bare 4:9 And Boaz unto Judah, of said unto the the seed which elders, and the LORD shall [unto] all the give thee of this people, Ye [are] young woman. witnesses this 4:13 So Boaz day, that I have took Ruth, and bought all that she was his wife: [was] and when he went Elimelech's, and in unto her, the all that [was] LORD gave her Chilion's and conception, and Mahlon's, of the she bare a son. hand of Naomi. 4:14 And the 4:10 Moreover women said unto Ruth the Naomi, Blessed Moabitess, the [be] the LORD, wife of Mahlon, which hath not have I purchased left thee this to be my wife, to day without a raise up the name kinsman, that his of the dead upon name may be his inheritance, famous in Israel. that the name of the dead be not 4:15 And he cut off from shall be unto among his thee a restorer brethren, and of [thy] life, from the gate of and a nourisher his place: ye of thine old age: [are] witnesses for thy daughter in law, which loveth thee, which is better to thee than seven sons, hath borne him. 4:16 And Naomi took the child, and laid it in her bosom, and became nurse unto it. 4:17 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. 4:18 Now these [are] the generations of Pharez: Pharez begat Hezron, 4:19 And Hezron begat Ram, and Ram begat Amminadab, 4:20 And Amminadab 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. ^Z^Z ~~~~~~