ND THEY ANSWERED HIM, THE LORD BLESS THEE.
# 5 THEN SAID BOAZ UNTO HIS SERVANT THAT WAS SET OVER THE REAPERS, WHOSE
 DAMSEL IS THIS?
# 6 AND THE SERVANT THAT WAS SET OVER THE REAPERS ANSWERED AND SAID, IT IS
 THE MOABITISH DAMSEL THAT CAME BACK WITH NAOMI OUT OF THE COUNTRY OF MOAB:
# 7 AND SHE SAID, I PRAY YOU, LET ME GLEAN AND GATHER AFTER THE REAPERS AMONG
 THE SHEAVES: SO SHE CAME, AND HATH CONTINUED EVEN FROM THE MORNING UNTIL NOW,
 THAT SHE TARRIED A LITTLE IN THE HOUSE.
# 8 THEN SAID BOAZ UNTO RUTH, HEAREST THOU NOT, MY DAUGHTER? GO NOT TO GLEAN
 IN ANOTHER FIELD, NEITHER GO FROM HENCE, BUT ABIDE HERE FAST BY MY MAIDENS:
# 9 LET THINE EYES BE ON THE FIELD THAT THEY DO REAP, AND GO THOU AFTER THEM:
 HAVE I NOT CHARGED THE YOUNG MEN THAT THEY SHALL NOT TOUCH THEE? AND WHEN
 THOU ART ATHIRST, GO UNTO THE VESSELS, AND DRINK OF THAT WHICH THE YOUNG MEN
 HAVE DRAWN.
# 10 THEN SHE FELL ON HER FACE, AND BOWED HERSELF TO THE GROUND, AND SAID
 UNTO HIM, WHY HAVE I FOUND GRACE IN THINE EYES, THAT THOU SHOULDEST TAKE
 KNOWLEDGE OF ME, SEEING I AM A STRANGER?
# 11 AND BOAZ ANSWERED AND SAID UNTO HER, IT HATH FULLY BEEN SHEWED ME, ALL
 THAT THOU HAST DONE UNTO THY MOTHER IN LAW SINCE THE DEATH OF THINE HUSBAND:
 AND HOW THOU HAST LEFT THY FATHER AND THY MOTHER, AND THE LAND OF THY
 NATIVITY, AND ART COME UNTO A PEOPLE WHICH THOU KNEWEST NOT HERETOFORE.
# 12 THE LORD RECOMPENSE THY WORK, AND A FULL REWARD BE GIVEN THEE OF THE
 LORD GOD OF ISRAEL, UNDER WHOSE WINGS THOU ART COME TO TRUST.
# 13 THEN SHE SAID, LET ME FIND FAVOUR IN THY SIGHT, MY LORD; FOR THAT THOU
 HAST COMFORTED ME, AND FOR THAT THOU HAST SPOKEN FRIENDLY UNTO THINE
 HANDMAID, THOUGH I BE NOT LIKE UNTO ONE OF THINE HANDMAIDENS.
# 14 AND BOAZ SAID UNTO HER, AT MEALTIME COME THOU HITHER, AND EAT OF THE
 BREAD, AND DIP THY MORSEL IN THE VINEGAR. AND SHE SAT BESIDE THE REAPERS: AND
 HE REACHED HER PARCHED CORN, AND SHE DID EAT, AND WAS SUFFICED, AND LEFT.
# 15 AND WHEN SHE WAS RISEN UP TO GLEAN, BOAZ COMMANDED HIS YOUNG MEN,
 SAYING, LET HER GLEAN EVEN AMONG THE SHEAVES, AND REPROACH HER NOT:
# 16 AND LET FALL ALSO SOME OF THE HANDFULS OF PURPOSE FOR HER, AND LEAVE
 THEM, THAT SHE MAY GLEAN THEM, AND REBUKE HER NOT.
# 17 SO SHE GLEANED IN THE FIELD UNTIL EVEN, AND BEAT OUT THAT SHE HAD
 GLEANED: AND IT WAS ABOUT AN EPHAH OF BARLEY.
# 18 AND SHE TOOK IT UP, AND WENT INTO THE CITY: AND HER MOTHER IN LAW SAW
 WHAT SHE HAD GLEANED: AND SHE BROUGHT FORTH, AND GAVE TO HER THAT SHE HAD
 RESERVED AFTER SHE WAS SUFFICED.
# 19 AND HER MOTHER IN LAW SAID UNTO HER, WHERE HAST THOU GLEANED TO DAY? AND
 WHERE WROUGHTEST THOU? BLESSED BE HE THAT DID TAKE KNOWLEDGE OF THEE. AND SHE
 SHEWED HER MOTHER IN LAW WITH WHOM SHE HAD WROUGHT, AND SAID, THE MANS NAME
 WITH WHOM I WROUGHT TO DAY IS BOAZ.
# 20 AND NAOMI SAID UNTO HER DAUGHTER IN LAW, BLESSED BE HE OF THE LORD, WHO
 HATH NOT LEFT OFF HIS KINDNESS TO THE LIVING AND TO THE DEAD. AND NAOMI SAID
 UNTO HER, THE MAN IS NEAR OF KIN UNTO US, ONE OF OUR NEXT KINSMEN.
# 21 AND RUTH THE MOABITESS SAID, HE SAID UNTO ME ALSO, THOU SHALT KEEP FAST
 BY MY YOUNG MEN, UNTIL THEY HAVE ENDED ALL MY HARVEST.
# 22 AND NAOMI SAID UNTO RUTH HER DAUGHTER IN LAW, IT IS GOOD, MY DAUGHTER,
 THAT THOU GO OUT WITH HIS MAIDENS, THAT THEY MEET THEE NOT IN ANY OTHER
 FIELD.
# 23 SO SHE KEPT FAST BY THE MAIDENS OF BOAZ TO GLEAN UNTO THE END OF BARLEY
 HARVEST AND OF WHEAT HARVEST; AND DWELT WITH HER MOTHER IN LAW.
= CHAPTER 3 
# 1 THEN NAOMI HER MOTHER IN LAW SAID UNTO HER, MY DAUGHTER, SHALL I NOT SEEK
 REST FOR THEE, THAT IT MAY BE WELL WITH THEE?
# 2 AND NOW IS NOT BOAZ OF OUR KINDRED, WITH WHOSE MAIDENS THOU WAST? BEHOLD,
 HE WINNOWETH BARLEY TO NIGHT IN THE THRESHINGFLOOR.
# 3 WASH THYSELF THEREFORE, AND ANOINT THEE, AND PUT THY RAIMENT UPON THEE,
 AND GET THEE DOWN TO THE FLOOR: BUT MAKE NOT THYSELF KNOWN UNTO THE MAN,
 UNTIL HE SHALL HAVE DONE EATING AND DRINKING.
# 4 AND IT SHALL BE, WHEN HE LIETH DOWN, THAT THOU SHALT MARK THE PLACE WHERE
 HE SHALL LIE, AND THOU SHALT GO IN, AND UNCOVER HIS FEBOOK08BIB[.050044]BOOK08.BIB[.050044]            	                                                       X1               4                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              |H [4;  I  k(  &   '  (	k߫H&  P  `    \RrP P2PPz  PP{   PPPPP2P~  \  $     \\TD 0D	\~  h   i  )	+\	^(	n^(np\^txY  \^ˀ   \!  k        Vk<\  F˰ < ˴ ˬ      \   VVkˤ   1` @lP ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ$.?0123456789<@<SЬTЬUQS><PP  Џ  PS'{@  PRPBS{(PRPBS@                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               @   @                                                      (" @$ $ # 0$ # $ 8$ % $ % (% $       !                             @                                                "                     FORRTL                                                        LIBRTL                                                                                                                                                                                                          7-./%<=2&?'@O{[lP}M]\Nk`Kaz^L~no|JZ_myjС??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? \	\\\\\\\\\\\\\\
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 THE FLOOR.
# 15 ALSO HE SAID, BRING THE VAIL THAT THOU HAST UPON THEE, AND HOLD IT. AND
 WHEN SHE HELD IT, HE MEASURED SIX MEASURES OF BARLEY, AND LAID IT ON HER: AND
 SHE WENT INTO THE CITY.
# 16 AND WHEN SHE CAME TO HER MOTHER IN LAW, SHE SAID, WHO ART THOU, MY
 DAUGHTER? AND SHE TOLD HER ALL THAT THE MAN HAD DONE TO HER.
# 17 AND SHE SAID, THESE SIX MEASURES OF BARLEY GAVE HE ME; FOR HE SAID TO
 ME, GO NOT EMPTY UNTO THY MOTHER IN LAW.
# 18 THEN SAID SHE, SIT STILL, MY DAUGHTER, UNTIL THOU KNOW HOW THE MATTER
 WILL FALL: FOR THE MAN WILL NOT BE IN REST, UNTIL HE HAVE FINISHED THE THING
 THIS DAY.
= CHAPTER 4 
# 1 THEN WENT BOAZ UP TO THE GATE, AND SAT HIM DOWN THERE: AND, BEHOLD, THE
 KINSMAN OF WHOM BOAZ SPAKE CAME BY; UNTO WHOM HE SAID, HO, SUCH A ONE! TURN
 ASIDE, SIT DOWN HERE. AND HE TURNED ASIDE, AND SAT DOWN.
# 2 AND HE TOOK TEN MEN OF THE ELDERS OF THE CITY, AND SAID, SIT YE DOWN
 HERE. AND THEY SAT DOWN.
# 3 AND HE SAID UNTO THE KINSMAN, NAOMI, THAT IS COME AGAIN OUT OF THE
 COUNTRY OF MOAB, SELLETH A PARCEL OF LAND, WHICH WAS OUR BROTHER ELIMELECHS:
# 4 AND I THOUGHT TO ADVERTISE THEE, SAYING, BUY IT BEFORE THE INHABITANTS,
 AND BEFORE THE ELDERS OF MY PEOPLE. IF THOU WILT REDEEM IT, REDEEM IT: BUT IF
 THOU WILT NOT REDEEM IT, THEN TELL ME, THAT I MAY KNOW: FOR THERE IS NONE TO
 REDEEM IT BESIDE THEE; AND I AM AFTER THEE. AND HE SAID, I WILL REDEEM IT.
# 5 THEN SAID BOAZ, WHAT DAY THOU BUYEST THE FIELD OF THE HAND OF NAOMI, THOU
 MUST BUY IT ALSO OF RUTH THE MOABITESS, THE WIFE OF THE DEAD, TO RAISE UP THE
 NAME OF THE DEAD UPON HIS INHERITANCE.
# 6 AND THE KINSMAN SAID, I CANNOT REDEEM IT FOR MYSELF, LEST I MAR MINE OWN
 INHERITANCE: REDEEM THOU MY RIGHT TO THYSELF; FOR I CANNOT REDEEM IT.
# 7 NOW THIS WAS THE MANNER IN FORMER TIME IN ISRAEL CONCERNING REDEEMING AND
 CONCERNING CHANGING, FOR TO CONFIRM ALL THINGS; A MAN PLUCKED OFF HIS SHOE,
 AND GAVE IT TO HIS NEIGHBOUR: AND THIS WAS A TESTIMONY IN ISRAEL.
# 8 THEREFORE THE KINSMAN SAID UNTO BOAZ, BUY IT FOR THEE. SO HE DREW OFF HIS
 SHOE.
# 9 AND BOAZ SAID UNTO THE ELDERS, AND UNTO ALL THE PEOPLE, YE ARE WITNESSES
 THIS DAY, THAT I HAVE BOUGHT ALL THAT WAS ELIMELECHS, AND ALL THAT WAS
 CHILIONS AND MAHLONS, OF THE HAND OF NAOMI.
# 10 MOREOVER RUTH THE MOABITESS, THE WIFE OF MAHLON, HAVE I PURCHASED TO BE
 MY WIFE, TO RAISE UP THE NAME OF THE DEAD UPON HIS INHERITANCE, THAT THE NAME
 OF THE DEAD BE NOT CUT OFF FROM AMONG HIS BRETHREN, AND FROM THE GATE OF HIS
 PLACE: YE ARE WITNESSES THIS DAY.
# 11 AND ALL THE PEOPLE THAT WERE IN THE GATE, AND THE ELDERS, SAID, WE ARE
 WITNESSES. THE LORD MAKE THE WOMAN THAT IS COME INTO THINE HOUSE LIKE RACHEL
 AND LIKE LEAH, WHICH TWO DID BUILD THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL: AND DO THOU WORTHILY
 IN EPHRATAH, AND BE FAMOUS IN BETHLEHEM:
# 12 AND LET THY HOUSE BE LIKE THE HOUSE OF PHAREZ, WHOM TAMAR BARE UNTO
 JUDAH, OF THE SEED WHICH THE LORD SHALL GIVE THEE OF THIS YOUNG WOMAN.
# 13 SO BOAZ TOOK RUTH, AND SHE WAS HIS WIFE: AND WHEN HE WENT IN UNTO HER,
 THE LORD GAVE HER CONCEPTION, AND SHE BARE A SON.
# 14 AND THE WOMEN SAID UNTO NAOMI, BLESSED BE THE LORD, WHICH HATH NOT LEFT
 THEE THIS DAY WITHOUT A KINSMAN, THAT HIS NAME MAY BE FAMOUS IN ISRAEL.
# 15 AND HE SHALL BE UNTO THEE A RESTORER OF THY LIFE, AND A NOURISHER OF
 THINE OLD AGE: FOR THY DAUGHTER IN LAW, WHICH LOVETH THEE, WHICH IS BETTER TO
 THEE THAN SEVEN SONS, HATH BORN HIM.
# 16 AND NAOMI TOOK THE CHILD, AND LAID IT IN HER BOSOM, AND BECAME NURSE
 UNTO IT.
# 17 AND THE WOMEN HER NEIGHBOURS GAVE IT A NAME, SAYING, THERE IS A SON BORN
 TO NAOMI; AND THEY CALLED HIS NAME OBED: HE IS THE FATHER OF JESSE, THE
 FATHER OF DAVID.
# 18 NOW THESE ARE THE GENERATIONS OF PHAREZ: PHAREZ BEGAT HEZRON,
# 19 AND HEZRON BEGAT RAM, AND RAM BEGAT AMMINADAB,
# 20 AND AMMINADAB BEGAT NAHSHON, AND NAHSHON BEGAT SALMON,
# 21 AND SALMON BEGAT BOAZ, AND BOAZ BEGAT OBED,
# 22 AND OBED BEGAT JESSE, AND JESSE BEGAT DAVID.
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