Ruth 3
1 A little later Naomi said to Ruth, “My daughter, don't you think I should find you a husband and a good home?
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 Don't ignore the fact that Boaz, whose women you worked with, is closely related to us. Now tonight he will be busy winnowing grain 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 Have a bath, put on some perfume, wear your best clothes, and go down to the threshing floor—but don't let him recognize you. Once he's 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 watch where he goes to lie down. Then go and uncover his feet and lie down. Then he will tell you what to 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'll do everything you told me,” said Ruth.
盧德回答她說：「你所囑咐我的，我必依照遵行。」
6 She went down to the threshing floor and did what her mother-in-law had told 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 feeling contented, he went and lay down beside the grain pile. Ruth quietly approached him, 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 Around midnight Boaz suddenly woke up. Bending forward he was surprised to see a woman lying at his feet.
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'm Ruth, your servant,” she replied. “Please spread the corner of your cloak over me, for you are my family 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 “May the Lord bless you, my daughter,” he said. “You are showing even more loyalty and love to the family than before. You haven't gone looking for a younger man, of whatever social status.
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 So don't worry, my daughter. I will do everything you ask—everyone in town knows you are a woman of good 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 However, even though I'm one of your family redeemers, there's one who is more closely related than I am.
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, then fine, let him do it. But if he doesn't, then I promise you in the name of the living Lord, I will redeem you. Lie down 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 Ruth lay at his feet until morning. Then she got up before it was light enough to recognize anyone because Boaz had told her, “No one must know that a woman came here 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 He also told her, “Bring me the cloak you're wearing and hold it out.” So she held it out and he poured out six measures of barley into it. He helped her put it on her back and she went back to town.
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 Ruth went to her mother-in-law, who asked her, “How did it go for you, my daughter?” So Ruth told her everything 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 he also gave me these six measures of barley,” she added. “He told me, ‘You mustn't go home 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 Naomi said to Ruth, “Wait patiently, my daughter, until you find out how it all works out. Boaz won't rest until he has it settled 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。」
