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DAY 77
Ruth 1
Elimelech's Family Goes to Moab
1 Now it came to pass, in the days when the judges ruled, that there was a
famine in the land. And
a certain man of Bethlehem, Judah, went to dwell in the country of Moab, he and
his wife and his two
sons. 2 The name of the man was Elimelech, the name of his wife was Naomi, and
the names of his two
ons were Mahlon and Chilion-Ephrathites of Bethlehem, Judah. And they went to
the country of Moab
nd remained there. 3 Then Elimelech, Naomi's husband, died; and she was left,
and her two sons. 4
Now they took wives of the women of Moab: the name of the one was Orpah, and
the name of the other
uth. And they dwelt there about ten years. 5 Then both Mahlon and Chilion also
died; so the woman
survived her two sons and her husband.
omi Returns with Ruth
Then she arose with her daughters-in-law that she might return from the
country of Moab, for she
had heard in the country of Moab that the LORD had visited His people by giving
them bread. 7
Therefore she went out from the place where she was, and her two
daughters-in-law with her; and they
went on the way to return to the land of Judah. 8 And Naomi said to her two
daughters-in-law, "Go,
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each to her mother's house. The LORD deal kindly with you, as you have dealt
with the dead
and with me. 9 The LORD grant that you may find rest, each in the house of her
husband."
So she kissed them, and they lifted up their voices and wept. 10 And they said
to her, "Surely we
will return with you to your people."
11 But Naomi said, "Turn back, my daughters; why will you go with me? Are there
still sons in my
womb, that they may be your husbands? 12 Turn back, my daughters, go-for I am
too old to have a
husband. If I should say I have hope, if I should have a husband tonight and
should also bear sons,
13 would you wait for them till they were grown? Would you restrain yourselves
from having husbands?
No, my daughters; for it grieves me very much for your sakes that the hand of
the LORD has gone out
against me!"
14 Then they lifted up their voices and wept again; and Orpah kissed her
mother-in-law, but Ruth
clung to her.
15 And she said, "Look, your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and to
her gods; return after
your sister-in-law."
16 But Ruth said:
" Entreat me not to leave you,
Or to turn back from following after you;
For wherever you go, I will go;
And wherever you lodge, I will lodge;
Your people shall be my people,
And your God, my God.
17 Where you die, I will die,
And there will I be buried.
The LORD do so to me, and more also,
If anything but death parts you and me."
18 When she saw that she was determined to go with her, she stopped speaking to
her.
19 Now the two of them went until they came to Bethlehem. And it happened, when
they had come to
Bethlehem, that all the city was excited because of them; and the women said,
"Is this Naomi?"
20 But she said to them, "Do not call me Naomi;[a] call me Mara,[b] for the
Almighty has dealt very
bitterly with me. 21 I went out full, and the LORD has brought me home again
empty. Why do you call
me Naomi, since the LORD has testified against me, and the Almighty has
afflicted me?"
22 So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabitess her daughter-in-law with her, who
returned from the
country of Moab. Now they came to Bethlehem at the beginning of barley harvest.
Ruth 2
Ruth Meets Boaz
1 There was a relative of Naomi's husband, a man of great wealth, of the family
of Elimelech. His
name was Boaz. 2 So Ruth the Moabitess said to Naomi, "Please let me go to the
field, and glean
heads of grain after him in whose sight I may find favor."
And she said to her, "Go, my daughter."
3 Then she left, and went and gleaned in the field after the reapers. And she
happened to come to
the part of the field belonging to Boaz, who was of the family of Elimelech.
4 Now behold, Boaz came from Bethlehem, and said to the reapers, "The LORD be
with you!"
And they answered him, "The LORD bless you!"
5 Then Boaz said to his servant who was in charge of the reapers, "Whose young
woman is this?"
6 So the servant who was in charge of the reapers answered and said, "It is the
young Moabite woman
who came back with Naomi from the country of Moab. 7 And she said, 'Please let
me glean and gather
after the reapers among the sheaves.' So she came and has continued from
morning until now, though
she rested a little in the house."
8 Then Boaz said to Ruth, "You will listen, my daughter, will you not? Do not
go to glean in another
field, nor go from here, but stay close by my young women. 9 Let your eyes be
on the field which
they reap, and go after them. Have I not commanded the young men not to touch
you? And when you are
thirsty, go to the vessels and drink from what the young men have drawn."
10 So she fell on her face, bowed down to the ground, and said to him, "Why
have I found favor in
your eyes, that you should take notice of me, since I am a foreigner?"
11 And Boaz answered and said to her, "It has been fully reported to me, all
that you have done for
your mother-in-law since the death of your husband, and how you have left your
father and your
mother and the land of your birth, and have come to a people whom you did not
know before. 12 The
LORD repay your work, and a full reward be given you by the LORD God of Israel,
under whose wings
you have come for refuge."
13 Then she said, "Let me find favor in your sight, my lord; for you have
comforted me, and have
spoken kindly to your maidservant, though I am not like one of your
maidservants."
14 Now Boaz said to her at mealtime, "Come here, and eat of the bread, and dip
your piece of bread
in the vinegar." So she sat beside the reapers, and he passed parched grain to
her; and she ate and
was satisfied, and kept some back. 15 And when she rose up to glean, Boaz
commanded his young men,
saying, "Let her glean even among the sheaves, and do not reproach her. 16 Also
let grain from the
bundles fall purposely for her; leave it that she may glean, and do not rebuke
her."
17 So she gleaned in the field until evening, and beat out what she had
gleaned, and it was about an
ephah of barley. 18 Then she took it up and went into the city, and her
mother-in-law saw what she
had gleaned. So she brought out and gave to her what she had kept back after
she had been satisfied.
19 And her mother-in-law said to her, "Where have you gleaned today? And where
did you work? Blessed
be the one who took notice of you."
So she told her mother-in-law with whom she had worked, and said, "The man's
name with whom I worked
today is Boaz."
20 Then Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, "Blessed be he of the LORD, who has
not forsaken His
kindness to the living and the dead!" And Naomi said to her, "This man is a
relation of ours, one of
our close relatives."
21 Ruth the Moabitess said, "He also said to me, 'You shall stay close by my
young men until they
have finished all my harvest.'"
22 And Naomi said to Ruth her daughter-in-law, "It is good, my daughter, that
you go out with his
young women, and that people do not meet you in any other field." 23 So she
stayed close by the
young women of Boaz, to glean until the end of barley harvest and wheat
harvest; and she dwelt with
her mother-in-law.
Ruth 3
Ruth's Redemption Assured
1 Then Naomi her mother-in-law said to her, "My daughter, shall I not seek
security for you, that
it may be well with you? 2 Now Boaz, whose young women you were with, is he not
our relative? In
fact, he is winnowing barley tonight at the threshing floor. 3 Therefore wash
yourself and anoint
yourself, put on your best garment and go down to the threshing floor; but do
not make yourself
known to the man until he has finished eating and drinking. 4 Then it shall be,
when he lies down,
that you shall notice the place where he lies; and you shall go in, uncover his
feet, and lie down;
and he will tell you what you should do."
5 And she said to her, "All that you say to me I will do."
6 So she went down to the threshing floor and did according to all that her
mother-in-law instructed
her. 7 And after Boaz had eaten and drunk, and his heart was cheerful, he went
to lie down at the
end of the heap of grain; and she came softly, uncovered his feet, and lay down.
8 Now it happened at midnight that the man was startled, and turned himself;
and there, a woman was
lying at his feet. 9 And he said, "Who are you?"
So she answered, "I am Ruth, your maidservant. Take your maidservant under your
wing,[c] for you are
a close relative."
10 Then he said, "Blessed are you of the LORD, my daughter! For you have shown
more kindness at the
end than at the beginning, in that you did not go after young men, whether poor
or rich. 11 And now,
my daughter, do not fear. I will do for you all that you request, for all the
people of my town know
that you are a virtuous woman. 12 Now it is true that I am a close relative;
however, there is a
relative closer than I. 13 Stay this night, and in the morning it shall be that
if he will perform
the duty of a close relative for you-good; let him do it. But if he does not
want to perform the
duty for you, then I will perform the duty for you, as the LORD lives! Lie down
until morning."
14 So she lay at his feet until morning, and she arose before one could
recognize another. Then he
said, "Do not let it be known that the woman came to the threshing floor." 15
Also he said, "Bring
the shawl that is on you and hold it." And when she held it, he measured six
ephahs of barley, and
laid it on her. Then she[d] went into the city.
16 When she came to her mother-in-law, she said, "Is that you, my daughter?"
Then she told her all that the man had done for her. 17 And she said, "These
six ephahs of barley he
gave me; for he said to me, 'Do not go empty-handed to your mother-in-law.'"
18 Then she said, "Sit still, my daughter, until you know how the matter will
turn out; for the man
will not rest until he has concluded the matter this day."
Ruth 4
Boaz Redeems Ruth
1 Now Boaz went up to the gate and sat down there; and behold, the close
relative of whom Boaz had
spoken came by. So Boaz said, "Come aside, friend,[e] sit down here." So he
came aside and sat down.
2 And he took ten men of the elders of the city, and said, "Sit down here." So
they sat down. 3 Then
he said to the close relative, "Naomi, who has come back from the country of
Moab, sold the piece of
land which belonged to our brother Elimelech. 4 And I thought to inform you,
saying, 'Buy it back in
the presence of the inhabitants and the elders of my people. If you will redeem
it, redeem it; but
if you[f] will not redeem it, then tell me, that I may know; for there is no
one but you to redeem
it, and I am next after you.'"
And he said, "I will redeem it."
5 Then Boaz said, "On the day you buy the field from the hand of Naomi, you
must also buy it from
Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of the dead, to perpetuate[g] the name of the dead
through his
inheritance."
6 And the close relative said, "I cannot redeem it for myself, lest I ruin my
own inheritance. You
redeem my right of redemption for yourself, for I cannot redeem it."
7 Now this was the custom in former times in Israel concerning redeeming and
exchanging, to confirm
anything: one man took off his sandal and gave it to the other, and this was a
confirmation in
Israel.
8 Therefore the close relative said to Boaz, "Buy it for yourself." So he took
off his sandal. 9 And
Boaz said to the elders and all the people, "You are witnesses this day that I
have bought all that
was Elimelech's, and all that was Chilion's and Mahlon's, from the hand of
Naomi. 10 Moreover, Ruth
the Moabitess, the widow of Mahlon, I have acquired as my wife, to perpetuate
the name of the dead
through his inheritance, that the name of the dead may not be cut off from
among his brethren and
from his position at the gate.[h] You are witnesses this day."
11 And all the people who were at the gate, and the elders, said, "We are
witnesses. The LORD make
the woman who is coming to your house like Rachel and Leah, the two who built
the house of Israel;
and may you prosper in Ephrathah and be famous in Bethlehem. 12 May your house
be like the house of
Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah, because of the offspring which the LORD will
give you from this
young woman."
Descendants of Boaz and Ruth
13 So Boaz took Ruth and she became his wife; and when he went in to her, the
LORD gave her
conception, and she bore a son. 14 Then the women said to Naomi, "Blessed be
the LORD, who has not
left you this day without a close relative; and may his name be famous in
Israel! 15 And may he be
to you a restorer of life and a nourisher of your old age; for your
daughter-in-law, who loves you,
who is better to you than seven sons, has borne him." 16 Then Naomi took the
child and laid him on
her bosom, and became a nurse to him. 17 Also the neighbor women gave him 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.
18 Now this is the genealogy of Perez: Perez begot Hezron; 19 Hezron begot Ram,
and Ram begot
Amminadab; 20 Amminadab begot Nahshon, and Nahshon begot Salmon;[i] 21 Salmon
begot Boaz, and Boaz
begot Obed; 22 Obed begot Jesse, and Jesse begot David.
Footnotes:
a.Ruth 1:20 Literally Pleasant
b.Ruth 1:20 Literally Bitter
c.Ruth 3:9 Or Spread the corner of your garment over your maidservant
d.Ruth 3:15 Many Hebrew manuscripts, Syriac, and Vulgate read she; Masoretic
Text, Septuagint, and
Targum read he.
e.Ruth 4:1 Hebrew peloni almoni; literally so and so
f.Ruth 4:4 Following many Hebrew manuscripts, Septuagint, Syriac, Targum, and
Vulgate; Masoretic
Text reads he.
g.Ruth 4:5 Literally raise up
h.Ruth 4:10 Probably his civic office
i.Ruth 4:20 Hebrew Salmah
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