Ruth

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。

1Naomi had a relative of her husband’s, a mighty man of wealth, of the family of Elimelech, and his name was Boaz.

2Ruth the Moabitess said to Naomi, “Let me now go to the field, and glean among the ears of grain after him in whose sight I find favor.” She said to her, “Go, my daughter.”

3She went, and came and gleaned in the field after the reapers; and she happened to come to the portion of the field belonging to Boaz, who was of the family of Elimelech.

4Behold, Boaz came from Bethlehem, and said to the reapers, “May the LORD be with you.” They answered him, “May the LORD bless you.”

5Then Boaz said to his servant who was set over the reapers, “Whose young lady is this?”

6The servant who was set over the reapers answered, “It is the Moabite lady who came back with Naomi out of the country of Moab.

7She said, ‘Please let me glean and gather after the reapers among the sheaves.’ So she came, and has continued even from the morning until now, except that she rested a little in the house.”

8Then Boaz said to Ruth, “Listen, my daughter. Don’t go to glean in another field, and don’t go from here, but stay here close to my maidens.

9Let your eyes be on the field that they reap, and go after them. Haven’t I commanded the young men not to touch you? When you are thirsty, go to the vessels, and drink from that which the young men have drawn.”

10Then she fell on her face and bowed herself to the ground, and said to him, “Why have I found favor in your sight, that you should take knowledge of me, since I am a foreigner?”

11Boaz answered her, “I have been told all about what you have done for your mother-in-law since the death of your husband, and how you have left your father, your mother, and the land of your birth, and have come to a people that you didn’t know before.

12May the LORD repay your work, and a full reward be given to you from the LORD, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to take refuge.”

13Then she said, “Let me find favor in your sight, my lord, because you have comforted me, and because you have spoken kindly to your servant, though I am not as one of your servants.”

14At meal time Boaz said to her, “Come here, and eat some bread, and dip your morsel in the vinegar.” She sat beside the reapers, and they passed her parched grain. She ate, was satisfied, and left some of it.

15When she had risen up to glean, Boaz commanded his young men, saying, “Let her glean even among the sheaves, and don’t reproach her.

16Also pull out some for her from the bundles, and leave it. Let her glean, and don’t rebuke her.”

17So she gleaned in the field until evening; and she beat out that which she had gleaned, and it was about an ephahof barley.

18She took it up, and went into the city. Then her mother-in-law saw what she had gleaned; and she brought out and gave to her that which she had left after she had enough.

19Her mother-in-law said to her, “Where have you gleaned today? Where have you worked? Blessed be he who noticed you.” She told her mother-in-law with whom she had worked, “The man’s name with whom I worked today is Boaz.”

20Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, “May he be blessed by the LORD, who has not abandoned his kindness to the living and to the dead.” Naomi said to her, “The man is a close relative to us, one of our near kinsmen.”

21Ruth the Moabitess said, “Yes, he said to me, ‘You shall stay close to my young men until they have finished all my harvest.’”

22Naomi said to Ruth her daughter-in-law, “It is good, my daughter, that you go out with his maidens, and that they not harm you in any other field.”

23So she stayed close to the maidens of Boaz, to glean to the end of barley harvest and of wheat harvest; and she lived with her mother-in-law.