1 Ora tinha Noemi um parente de seu marido, homem ilustre em riquezas, da família de Elimeleque; ele se chamava Boaz.
2 Rute, a moabita, disse a Noemi: Deixa-me ir ao campo e rabiscar entre as espigas após aquele em cujos olhos eu achar graça. Ela lhe respondeu: Vai, minha filha.
3 Foi e chegou ao campo e apanhava as espigas atrás dos segadores; a sorte a levou à parte do campo que pertencia a Boaz, que era da família de Elimeleque.
4 Eis que Boaz veio de Betlém, e disse aos segadores: Jeová seja convosco. Responderam-lhe eles: Jeová te abençoe.
5 Boaz perguntou ao servo que estava posto sobre os segadores: De quem é esta moça?
6 Respondeu-lhe o servo: Ela é a moça moabita que voltou com Noemi do país de Moabe;
7 pediu-me que a deixasse rabiscar e apanhar as espigas por entre as gavelas após os segadores. Veio e ficou desde a manhã até agora; só de pouco é que ela se assentou na choça.
8 Então disse Boaz a Rute: Ouve, minha filha? não vás a outro campo a rabiscar, nem te afastes daqui, mas ajunta-te às minhas moças.
9 Dirige os teus olhos para o campo que segarem, e vai após elas; não dei eu ordem aos moços que não te molestem? quando tiveres sede, vai aos vasos e bebe do que os moços tiverem tirado.
10 Ela, prostrando-se e inclinando-se com o rosto em terra, lhe perguntou: Por que é que achei graça diante de ti, ao ponto de fazeres tu caso de mim, sendo eu estrangeira?
11 Respondeu-lhe Boaz: Tem-se-me contado tudo o que tens feito a tua sogra, depois da morte de teu marido: como deixaste a teu pai e a tua mãe, e a terra em que nasceste, e és vinda a um povo que antes não conhecias.
12 Jeová te dê o galardão do que fizeste, e te seja concedida plena recompensa da parte de Jeová, Deus de Israel, debaixo de cujas asas vieste buscar refúgio.
13 Ela disse: Ache eu graça diante de ti, meu senhor: pois me consolaste, e falaste benignamente à tua serva, ainda que eu não seja como uma das tuas servas.
14 À hora de comer disse-lhe Boaz: Vem aqui, e come do pão e molha o teu bocado no vinagre. Ela se assentou ao lado dos segadores; e ele lhe ofereceu trigo tostado, e ela comeu e ficou satisfeita, e ainda lhe sobejou.
15 Tendo-se ela levantado para rabiscar, deu Boaz ordem aos seus moços, dizendo: Permiti-lhe rabiscar até entre as gavelas, e não a censureis.
16 Tirai também dos molhos algumas espigas, e deixai-as, para que ela as apanhe, e não a repreendais.
17 Esteve Rute apanhando no campo até a tarde; debulhou o que havia apanhado, e foi quase uma efa de cevada.
18 Então carregou com a cevada, e entrou na cidade; e viu sua sogra o que havia apanhado. Tirou também, e deu-lhe o que lhe sobejara depois de se ter fartado.
19 Perguntou-lhe sua sogra: Onde rabiscaste hoje? onde trabalhaste? Bendito seja aquele que fez caso de ti. Ela referiu a sua sogra com quem havia trabalhado e disse: O nome do homem com quem trabalhei hoje é Boaz.
20 Disse Noemi a sua nora: Bendito seja ele de Jeová, que não tem deixado de mostrar a sua bondade para com os vivos e para com os mortos. Disse-lhe mais Noemi: O homem é nosso parente, um dos nossos parentes chegados.
21 Respondeu Rute a moabita: Ele me disse ainda: Seguirás de perto aos meus moços, até que tenham acabado toda a minha sega.
22 Então disse Noemi a sua nora Rute: Bom é, minha filha, que saias com as suas moças, e que não te encontrem noutro campo.
23 Ela, pois, se ajuntou com as moças de Boaz para rabiscar até o fim da sega de cevada e de trigo; e morava com a sua sogra.
1 And Naomi had a relation of her husband, a man of wealth, of the family of Elimelech; and his name was Boaz.
2 And Ruth the Moabitess said to Naomi, Now let me go into the field and take up the heads of grain after him in whose eyes I may have grace. And she said to her, Go, my daughter.
3 And she went, and came and took up the heads of grain in the field after the cutters; and by chance she went into that part of the field which was the property of Boaz, who was of the family of Elimelech.
4 And Boaz came from Beth-lehem, and said to the grain-cutters, The Lord be with you. And they made answer, The Lord give you his blessing.
5 Then Boaz said to his servant who was in authority over the cutters, Whose girl is this?
6 And the servant who was in authority over the cutters said, It is a Moabite girl who came back with Naomi out of the country of Moab;
7 And she said to me, Let me come into the grain-field and take up the grain after the cutters. So she came, and has been here from morning till now, without resting even for a minute.
8 Then said Boaz to Ruth, Give ear to me, my daughter: do not go to take up the grain in another field, or go away from here, but keep here by my young women:
9 Keep your eyes on the field they are cutting, and go after them; have I not given orders to the young men not to put a hand on you? And when you are in need of drink go to the vessels and take of what the young men have put there.
10 Then she went down on her face to the earth, and said to him, Why have I grace in your eyes, that you give attention to me, seeing I am from a strange people?
11 And Boaz answering said to her, I have had news of everything you have done for your mother-in-law after the death of your husband; how you went away from your father and mother and the land of your birth, and came to a people who are strange to you.
12 The Lord give you a reward for what you have done, and may a full reward be given to you by the Lord, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to take cover.
13 Then she said, May I have grace in your eyes, my lord, for you have given me comfort, and you have said kind words to your servant, though I am not like one of your servants.
14 And at meal-time Boaz said to her, Come here, and take some of the bread, and put your bit into the wine. And she took her seat among the grain-cutters: and he gave her dry grain, and she took it, and there was more than enough for her meal.
15 And when she got ready to take up the grain, Boaz gave his young men orders, saying, Let her take it even from among the cut grain, and say nothing to her.
16 And let some heads of grain be pulled out of what has been corded up, and dropped for her to take, and let no sharp word be said to her.
17 So she went on getting together the heads of grain till evening; and after crushing out the seed it came to about an ephah of grain.
18 And she took it up and went into the town; and she let her mother-in-law see what she had got, and after taking enough for herself she gave her the rest.
19 And her mother-in-law said to her, Where did you take up the grain today, and where were you working? May a blessing be on him who gave such attention to you. And she gave her mother-in-law an account of where she had been working, and said, The name of the man with whom I was working today is Boaz.
20 And Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, May the blessing of the Lord, who has at all times been kind to the living and to the dead, be on him. And Naomi said to her, The man is of our family, one of our near relations.
21 And Ruth the Moabitess said, Truly, he said to me, Keep near my young men till all my grain is cut.
22 And Naomi said to Ruth, her daughter-in-law, It is better, my daughter, for you to go out with his servant-girls, so that no danger may come to you in another field.
23 So she kept near the servant-girls of Boaz to take up the grain till the cutting of the early grain and the cutting of the late grain were ended; and she went on living with her mother-in-law.