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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。
And Naomi hath an acquaintance of her husband's, a man mighty in wealth, of the family of Elimelech, and his name [is] Boaz.
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。”
And Ruth the Moabitess saith unto Naomi, 'Let me go, I pray thee, into the field, and I gather among the ears of corn after him in whose eyes I find grace;' and she saith to her, 'Go, my daughter.'
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。
And she goeth and cometh and gathereth in a field after the reapers, and her chance happeneth — the portion of the field is Boaz's who [is] of the family of Elimelech.
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!”
And lo, Boaz hath come from Beth-Lehem, and saith to the reapers, 'Jehovah [is] with you;' and they say to him, 'Jehovah doth bless thee.'
5 波阿斯问监管收割的仆人说:“那是谁家的女子?”
And Boaz saith to his young man who is set over the reapers, 'Whose [is] this young person?'
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。
And the young man who is set over the reapers answereth and saith, 'A young woman — Moabitess — she [is], who came back with Naomi from the fields of Moab,
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。”
and she saith, Let me glean, I pray thee — and I have gathered among the sheaves after the reapers; and she cometh and remaineth since the morning and till now; she sat in the house a little.
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。
And Boaz saith unto Ruth, 'Hast thou not heard, my daughter? go not to glean in another field, and also, pass not over from this, and thus thou dost cleave to my young women:
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。”
thine eyes [are] on the field which they reap, and thou hast gone after them; have not I charged the young men not to touch thee? when thou art athirst then thou hast gone unto the vessels, and hast drunk from that which the young men draw.'
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?”
And she falleth on her face, and boweth herself to the earth, and saith unto him, 'Wherefore have I found grace in thine eyes, to discern me, and I a stranger?'
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。
And Boaz answereth and saith to her, 'It hath thoroughly been declared to me all that thou hast done with thy mother-in-law, after the death of thy husband, and thou dost leave thy father, and thy mother, and the land of thy birth, and dost come in unto a people which thou hast not known heretofore.
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。”
Jehovah doth recompense thy work, and thy reward is complete from Jehovah, God of Israel, under whose wings thou hast come to take refuge.'
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。”
And she saith, 'Let me find grace in thine eyes, my lord, because thou hast comforted me, and because thou hast spoken unto the heart of thy maid-servant, and I — I am not as one of thy maid-servants.'
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。
And Boaz saith to her, 'At meal-time come nigh hither, and thou hast eaten of the bread, and dipped thy morsel in the vinegar.' And she sitteth at the side of the reapers, and he reacheth to her roasted corn, and she eateth, and is satisfied, and leaveth.
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;
And she riseth to glean, and Boaz chargeth his young men, saying, 'Even between the sheaves she doth glean, and ye do not cause her to blush;
16 并要从捆里抽出些来,留在地下任她拾取,不可叱吓她。”
and also ye do surely cast to her of the handfuls — and have left, and she hath gleaned, and ye do not push against her.'
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。
And she gleaneth in the field till the evening, and beateth out that which she hath gleaned, and it is about an ephah of barley;
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。
and she taketh [it] up, and goeth into the city, and her mother-in-law seeth that which she hath gleaned, and she bringeth out and giveth to her that which she left from her satiety.
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。”
And her mother-in-law saith to her, 'Where hast thou gleaned to-day? and where hast thou wrought? may he who is discerning thee be blessed.' And she declareth to her mother-in-law with whom she hath wrought, and saith, 'The name of the man with whom I have wrought to-day [is] Boaz.'
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。”
And Naomi saith to her daughter-in-law, 'Blessed [is] he of Jehovah who hath not forsaken His kindness with the living and with the dead;' and Naomi saith to her, 'The man is a relation of ours; he [is] of our redeemers.'
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。’”
And Ruth the Moabitess saith, 'Also he surely said unto me, Near the young people whom I have thou dost cleave till they have completed the whole of the harvest which I have.'
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。”
And Naomi saith unto Ruth her daughter-in-law, 'Good, my daughter, that thou goest out with his young women, and they come not against thee in another field.'
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。
And she cleaveth to the young women of Boaz to glean, till the completion of the barley-harvest, and of the wheat-harvest, and she dwelleth with her mother-in-law.

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