1 Toe sê haar skoonmoeder Naomi vir haar: My dogter, sal ek nie vir jou 'n rusplek soek, dat dit goed met jou kan gaan nie?
2 Nou dan, is Boas by wie se diensmeisies jy gewees het, nie ons bloedverwant nie? Kyk, hy wan vannag op die vloer gars uit.
3 Was jou dan en salf jou en trek jou klere aan, en gaan af na die vloer toe; laat jou deur die man nie herken totdat hy klaar geëet en gedrink het nie.
4 Maar as hy gaan slaap, let dan op die plek waar hy gaan slaap; kom dan nader, maak sy voetenent oop en gaan lê; en hy sal jou te kenne gee wat jy moet doen.
5 En sy antwoord haar: Alles wat u sê, sal ek doen.
6 Daarop het sy afgegaan na die vloer en gedoen net soos haar skoonmoeder haar beveel het.
7 Nadat Boas geëet en gedrink het, en sy hart vrolik was, en hy gaan slaap het by die ent van die hoop, het sy stilletjies gekom en sy voetenent oopgemaak en gaan lê.
8 En die man het teen middernag geskrik en vooroor gebuig en -- daar lê 'n vrou aan sy voetenent.
9 En hy vra: Wie is jy? Toe antwoord sy: Ek is Rut, u dienares; brei dan u vleuel oor u dienares uit, want u is die losser.
10 En hy sê: Geseënd is jy deur die HERE, my dogter! Jy het jou laaste liefde beter gemaak as die eerste, omdat jy nie agter jongmanne, arm of ryk, aan geloop het nie.
11 Wees dan nou nie bang nie, my dogter; alles wat jy sê, sal ek vir jou doen, want die hele stadspoort van my volk weet dat jy 'n deugsame vrou is.
12 Nou dan, dit is sekerlik waar dat ek die losser is, maar daar is nog 'n losser, nader as ek.
13 Bly vannag oor; en as hy jou môre wil los, goed, hy kan los; maar as hy nie lus het om jou te los nie, dan sal ,k jou los, so waar as die HERE leef! Bly lê tot môre.
14 En sy het tot die môre aan sy voetenent bly lê. Maar nog voordat een die ander kon herken, het sy opgestaan; want hy het gesê: Dit mag nie bekend word dat die vrou op die vloer gekom het nie.
15 Daarna sê hy: Gee die tjalie wat jy om het, en hou dit oop. En sy het dit oopgehou, en hy het ses mate gars afgemeet en dit op haar gesit en die stad ingegaan.
16 Toe sy by haar skoonmoeder kom, het die gevra: En toe, my dogter? En sy het haar alles vertel wat die man aan haar gedoen het,
17 en gesê: Hierdie ses mate gars het hy my gegee, want hy het gesê: Jy moet nie met leë hande by jou skoonmoeder kom nie.
18 En sy antwoord: Sit stil, my dogter, totdat jy weet hoe die saak uitval; want die man sal nie rus tensy hy vandag nog die saak afgehandel het nie.
1 And Naomi, her mother-in-law, said to her, My daughter, am I not to get you a resting-place where you may be in comfort?
2 And now, is there not Boaz, our relation, with whose young women you were? See, tonight he is separating the grain from the waste in his grain-floor.
3 So take a bath, and, after rubbing your body with sweet oil, put on your best robe, and go down to the grain-floor; but do not let him see you till he has come to the end of his meal.
4 But see to it, when he goes to rest, that you take note of the place where he is sleeping, and go in there, and, uncovering his feet, take your place by him; and he will say what you are to do.
5 And she said, I will do all you say.
6 So she went down to the grain-floor and did all her mother-in-law had said to her.
7 Now when Boaz had taken meat and drink, and his heart was glad, he went to take his rest at the end of the mass of grain; then she came softly and, uncovering his feet, went to rest.
8 Now in the middle of the night, the man awaking from his sleep in fear, and lifting himself up, saw a woman stretched at his feet.
9 And he said, Who are you? And she answering said, I am your servant Ruth: take your servant as wife, for you are a near relation.
10 And he said, May the Lord give you his blessing, my daughter: even better than what you did at the first is this last kind act you have done, in not going after young men, with or without wealth.
11 And now, my daughter, have no fear; I will do for you whatever you say: for it is clear to all my townspeople that you are a woman of virtue.
12 Now it is true that I am a near relation: but there is a relation nearer than I.
13 Take your rest here tonight; and in the morning, if he will do for you what it is right for a relation to do, very well, let him do so: but if he will not, then by the living Lord I myself will do so.
14 And she took her rest at his feet till the morning: and she got up before it was light enough for one to see another. And he said, Let it not come to anyone's knowledge that the woman came to the grain-floor.
15 And he said, Take your robe, stretching it out in your hands: and she did so, and he took six measures of grain and put them into it, and gave it her to take: and she went back to the town.
16 And when she came back her mother-in-law said to her, How did it go with you, my daughter? And she gave her an account of all the man had done to her.
17 And she said, He gave me these six measures of grain, saying, Do not go back to your mother-in-law with nothing in your hands.
18 Then she said, Do nothing now, my daughter, till you see what will come of this; for the man will take no rest till he has put this thing through.