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1:1 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.
1:2 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.
1:3 And Elimelech Naomi's husband died; and she was left, and
 her two sons.
1:4 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.
1:5 And Mahlon and Chilion died also, both of them; and the
 woman was left of her two children and of her husband.
1:6 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.
1:7 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.
1:8 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.
1:9 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.
1:10 And they said to her, We will certainly return with thee to
 thy people.
1:11 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?
1:12 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,
1:13 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.
1:14 And they lifted up their voice and wept again. And Orpah
 kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth clave to her.
1:15 And she said, Behold, thy sister-in-law is gone back to her
 people and to her gods: return after thy sister-in-law.
1:16 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 God my God;
1:17 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!
1:18 And when she saw that she was stedfastly minded to go with
 her, she left off speaking to her.
1:19 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?
1:20 And she said to them, Call me not Naomi -- call me Mara;
 for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me.
1:21 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?
1:22 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.
2:1 And Naomi had a relation of her husband's, a mighty man of
 wealth, of the family of Elimelech, and his name was Boaz.
2:2 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.
2:3 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.
2:4 And behold, Boaz came from Bethlehem; and he said to the
 reapers, Jehovah be with you! And they said to him, Jehovah
 bless thee!
2:5 And Boaz said to his servant that was set over the reapers,
 Whose maiden is this?
2:6 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;
2:7 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.
2:8 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.
2:9 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.
2:10 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?
2:11 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.
2:12 Jehovah recompense thy work, and let thy reward be full
 from Jehovah the God of Israel, under whose wings thou art come
 to take refuge.
2:13 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.
2:14 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].
2:15 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.
2:16 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.
2:17 And she gleaned in the field until even, and beat out what
 she had gleaned; and it was about an ephah of barley.
2:18 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.
2:19 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.
2:20 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.
2:21 And Ruth the Moabitess said, He said to me also, Thou shalt
 keep with my young men until they have ended all my harvest.
2:22 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.
2:23 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.
3:1 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?
3:2 And now, is not Boaz of our kindred, with whose maidens thou
 wast? Behold, he is winnowing barley in the threshing-floor
 to-night.
3:3 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.
3:4 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.
3:5 And she sai