Ruth 3
1 One day Ruth’s mother-in-law Naomi said to her, “My daughter, should I not seek a resting place for you, that it may be well with you?
盧德的婆婆納敖米向她說：「我女，難道我不應為你找個安身之處，使你幸福嗎﹖
2 Now is not Boaz, with whose servant girls you have been working, a relative of ours? In fact, tonight he is winnowing barley on the threshing floor.
如今你同他的使女常在一起的波阿次，不是我們的親人嗎﹖看，他今夜要在禾場上簸大麥，
3 Therefore wash yourself, put on perfume, and wear your best clothes. Go down to the threshing floor, but do not let the man know you are there until he has finished eating and drinking.
你去沐浴，抹油，披上你的外衣下，到禾場上去，但不要使那人認出你來，直等他吃喝完了，
4 When he lies down, note the place where he lies. Then go in and uncover his feet, and lie down, and he will explain to you what you should do.”
到他睡覺的時候，你要看清他睡覺的地方；然後就去掀開他腳上的外衣，，我必依照遵行。」
5 “I will do everything you say,” Ruth answered.
盧德回答她說：「你所囑咐我的，我必依照遵行。」
6 So she went down to the threshing floor and did everything her mother-in-law had instructed her to do.
她便下到禾場上，作了她婆婆所吩咐她的事。盧德夜訪波阿次
7 After Boaz had finished eating and drinking and was in good spirits, he went to lie down at the end of the heap of grain. Then Ruth went in secretly, uncovered his feet, and lay down.
波阿次吃了喝了，心中暢快，就走到麥堆旁躺下了。盧德暗暗地去掀開了他腳上的外衣，躺臥自那裏。
8 At midnight, Boaz was startled, turned over, and there lying at his feet was a woman!
到了半夜，那人驚起，往前屈身一看，見一個女人睡在他的腳旁，
9 “Who are you?” he asked. “I am your servant Ruth,” she replied. “Spread the corner of your garment over me, for you are a kinsman-redeemer.”
便問說：「你是誰」她答說：「我是你的婢女盧德，請你伸開你的衣襟，覆在你婢女身上罷! 因為你是我的至親。」
10 Then Boaz said, “May the LORD bless you, my daughter. You have shown more kindness now than before, because you have not run after the younger men, whether rich or poor.
波阿次說：「我女，願你蒙上主的祝福! 你行的仁愛，後者實勝於前者，以致貧富的少年，你都沒有跟隨
11 And now do not be afraid, my daughter. I will do for you whatever you request, since all my fellow townspeople know that you are a woman of noble character.
我女，如今你不必害怕，凡你同我所說的，我都願為你做到，因為我本城的人，都知道你是一位賢德的婦女
12 Yes, it is true that I am a kinsman-redeemer, but there is a redeemer nearer than I.
的確，我是你的至親，不過還有一位至親，比我更近。
13 Stay here tonight, and in the morning, if he wants to redeem you, good. Let him redeem you. But if he does not want to redeem you, as surely as the LORD lives, I will. Now lie here until morning.”
今夜你在這裏過夜，明早若他願意對你盡至親的義務，就由他盡好了! 如果他不願意，──上主永在! 我必對你盡至親的義務。你儘管睡到天明。盧德回報婆母
14 So she lay down at his feet until morning, but she got up before anyone else could recognize her. Then Boaz said, “Do not let it be known that a woman came to the threshing floor.”
她就在他的腳旁睡到天明。在人能彼此辨別以前，她就起來了；波阿次心想：「不要叫人知道有婦女來過場上。」
15 And he told her, “Bring the shawl you are wearing and hold it out.” When she did so, he shoveled six measures of barley into her shawl. Then he went into the city.
於是他說：「伸開你所披的外衣，雙手拿住! 」她就拿著，波阿次量了六斗大麥穗給她，放在她肩上；她就背著回城去了。
16 When Ruth returned to her mother-in-law, Naomi asked her, “How did it go, my daughter?” Then Ruth told her all that Boaz had done for her.
到了婆婆那裏，婆婆就問她說：「我女，事情怎樣﹖」盧德就向她述說了那人對她所作的一切；
17 And she said, “He gave me these six measures of barley, for he said, ‘Do not go back to your mother-in-law empty-handed.’”
並說：「他還給了我這六斗大麥，因為他向我說：你不要空手回去見你的婆婆。」
18 “Wait, my daughter,” said Naomi, “until you find out how things go, for he will not rest unless he has resolved the matter today.”
納敖米就說：「我女，你等著罷! 看這事有什麼結果；因為這人除非今日把這事辦成，必不安心。」
