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路得在波阿斯田里捡麦穗

1拿俄米的丈夫以利米勒的亲族中，有一个人名叫波阿斯，是个大财主。

2摩押女子路得对拿俄米说：「容我往田间去，我蒙谁的恩，就在谁的身后拾取麦穗。」拿俄米说：「女儿啊，你只管去。」

3路得就去了，来到田间，在收割的人身后拾取麦穗。她恰巧到了以利米勒本族的人波阿斯那块田里。

4波阿斯正从伯利恒来，对收割的人说：「愿耶和华与你们同在！」他们回答说：「愿耶和华赐福与你！」

5波阿斯问监管收割的仆人说：「那是谁家的女子？」

6监管收割的仆人回答说：「是那摩押女子，跟随拿俄米从摩押地回来的。

7她说：『请你容我跟着收割的人拾取打捆剩下的麦穗。』她从早晨直到如今，除了在屋子里坐一会儿，常在这里。」

8波阿斯对路得说：「女儿啊，听我说，不要往别人田里拾取麦穗，也不要离开这里，要常与我使女们在一处。

9我的仆人在那块田收割，你就跟着他们去。我已经吩咐仆人不可欺负你；你若渴了，就可以到器皿那里喝仆人打来的水。」

10路得就俯伏在地叩拜，对他说：「我既是外邦人，怎么蒙你的恩，这样顾恤我呢？」

11波阿斯回答说：「自从你丈夫死后，凡你向婆婆所行的，并你离开父母和本地，到素不认识的民中，这些事人全都告诉我了。

12愿耶和华照你所行的赏赐你。你来投靠耶和华—以色列 神的翅膀下，愿你满得他的赏赐。」

13路得说：「我主啊，愿在你眼前蒙恩。我虽然不及你的一个使女，你还用慈爱的话安慰我的心。」

14到了吃饭的时候，波阿斯对路得说：「你到这里来吃饼，将饼蘸在醋里。」路得就在收割的人旁边坐下；他们把烘了的穗子递给她。她吃饱了，还有余剩的。

15她起来又拾取麦穗，波阿斯吩咐仆人说：「她就是在捆中拾取麦穗，也可以容她，不可羞辱她；

16并要从捆里抽出些来，留在地下任她拾取，不可叱吓她。」

17这样，路得在田间拾取麦穗，直到晚上，将所拾取的打了，约有一伊法大麦。

18她就把所拾取的带进城去给婆婆看，又把她吃饱了所剩的给了婆婆。

19婆婆问她说：「你今日在哪里拾取麦穗，在哪里做工呢？愿那顾恤你的得福。」路得就告诉婆婆说：「我今日在一个名叫波阿斯的人那里做工。」

20拿俄米对儿妇说：「愿那人蒙耶和华赐福，因为他不断地恩待活人死人。」拿俄米又说：「那是我们本族的人，是一个至近的亲属。」

21摩押女子路得说：「他对我说：『你要紧随我的仆人拾取麦穗，直等他们收完了我的庄稼。』」

22拿俄米对儿妇路得说：「女儿啊，你跟着他的使女出去，不叫人遇见你在别人田间，这才为好。」

23于是路得与波阿斯的使女常在一处拾取麦穗，直到收完了大麦和小麦。路得仍与婆婆同住。

Boaz Meets Ruth

1Now Naomi had a relative on her husband’s side, a prominent man of noble character from the clan of Elimelech, whose name was Boaz.

2And Ruth the Moabitess said to Naomi, “Please let me go into the fields and glean heads of grain after someone in whose sight I may find favor.” “Go ahead, my daughter,” Naomi replied.

3So Ruth departed and went out into the field and gleaned after the harvesters. And she happened to come to the part of the field belonging to Boaz, who was from the clan of Elimelech.

4Just then Boaz arrived from Bethlehem and said to the harvesters, “The LORD be with you.” “The LORD bless you,” they replied.

5And Boaz asked the foreman of his harvesters, “Whose young woman is this?”

6The foreman answered, “She is the Moabitess who returned with Naomi from the land of Moab.

7She has said, ‘Please let me glean and gather among the sheaves after the harvesters.’ So she came out and has continued from morning until now, except that she rested a short time in the shelter.”

8Then Boaz said to Ruth, “Listen, my daughter. Do not go and glean in another field, and do not go away from this place, but stay here close to my servant girls.

9Let your eyes be on the field they are harvesting, and follow along after these girls. Indeed, I have ordered the young men not to touch you. And when you are thirsty, go and drink from the jars the young men have filled.”

10At this, she fell on her face, bowing low to the ground, and said to him, “Why have I found such favor in your eyes that you should take notice of me, even though I am a foreigner?”

11Boaz replied, “I have been made fully aware of all you have done for your mother-in-law since the death of your husband, how you left your father and mother and the land of your birth, and how you came to a people you did not know before.

12May the LORD repay your work, and may you receive a rich reward from the LORD, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have taken refuge.”

13“My lord,” she said, “may I continue to find favor in your eyes, for you have comforted and spoken kindly to your maidservant, though I am not like one of your servant girls.”

14At mealtime Boaz said to her, “Come over here; have some bread and dip it into the vinegar sauce.” So she sat down beside the harvesters, and he offered her roasted grain, and she ate and was satisfied and had some left over.

15When Ruth got up to glean, Boaz ordered his young men, “Even if she gathers among the sheaves, do not insult her.

16Rather, pull out for her some stalks from the bundles and leave them for her to gather. Do not rebuke her.”

17So Ruth gathered grain in the field until evening. And when she beat out what she had gleaned, it was about an ephah of barley.

18She picked up the grain and went into the town, where her mother-in-law saw what she had gleaned. And she brought out what she had saved from her meal and gave it to Naomi.

19Then her mother-in-law asked her, “Where did you glean today, and where did you work? Blessed be the man who noticed you.” So she told her mother-in-law where she had worked. “The name of the man I worked with today is Boaz,” she said.

20Then Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, “May he be blessed by the LORD, who has not withdrawn His kindness from the living or the dead.” Naomi continued, “The man is a close relative. He is one of our kinsman-redeemers.”

21Then Ruth the Moabitess said, “He also told me, ‘Stay with my young men until they have finished gathering all my harvest.’”

22And Naomi said to her daughter-in-law Ruth, “My daughter, it is good for you to work with his young women, so that nothing will happen to you in another field.”

23So Ruth stayed close to the servant girls of Boaz to glean grain until the barley and wheat harvests were finished. And she lived with her mother-in-law.