Ketuvim 703 Ruth 1, 2

(mother's house): may Hashem |18| When she saw that she |5| Then said Boaz unto his show chesed (lovingkindness) was steadfastly minded to go servant that was set over the to you, as ye have dealt with with her, then she left urging kotzerim, Whose na'arah is hamesim (the dead ones), and her. this? with me. |19| So they two went until |6| And the servant that was |9| Hashem grant you that ye they came to Beit-Lechem. set over the kotzerim answered may find menuchah (resting And it came to pass, when and said, It is the na'arah place), each of you in the bais they were come to Beit- from Moav that came back of her ish. Then she kissed Lechem, that kol ha'ir (all the with Naomi out of the sadeh them; and they lifted up their town) was moved about them, of Moav. voice, and wept. and they said, Is this Naomi? |7| And she said, I pray you, |10| And they said unto her, |20| And she said unto them, let me glean and gather after Surely we will make teshuvah Call me not Naomi [Pleasant], the kotzerim among the (return) with thee unto thy call me Mara [Bitter]; for omarim (sheaves); so she people. Shaddai hath dealt very came, and hath worked |11| And Naomi said, Turn bitterly with me. steadily from the boker even back, my banot; why will ye go |21| I went away full and until now, except for a short with me? Are there yet any Hashem hath brought me rest in the bais. more banim in my womb, that back empty; why then call me |8| Then said Boaz unto they may be your husbands? Naomi, seeing Hashem hath Ruth, Hearest thou not, my |12| Turn back, my banot, go testified against me, and daughter? Go not to glean in your way; for I am too old to Shaddai hath made me very another sadeh, neither go have an ish. If I should say, I bitter? from hence, but abide here have tikvah, if I should have |22| So Naomi returned, and close by my ne'arot; an ish halailah (tonight), and Ruth the Moabitess, her |9| Let thine eyes be on the should also bear banim, kallah, with her, which sadeh that they do reap, and |13| Would ye tarry for them returned out of the sadei go thou after them; have I not till they were grown? Would ye Moav; and they came to Beit- charged the ne'arim that they stay from having ba'alim Lechem in the beginning of shall not touch thee? And (husbands) for them? Nay, my katzir seorim (barley harvest). when thou art athirst, go unto banot; for it is more mar And Naomi had a the kelim (vessels), and drink (bitter) for me than you, for relative of her husband's, of that which the ne'arim have the Yad Hashem has gone out 2an ish gibbor chayil, of drawn. against me. the mishpochah of Elimelech; |10| Then she fell on her face, |14| And they lifted up their and shmo was Boaz. and bowed herself to the voice, and wept again; and |2| And Ruth the Moabitess ground, and said unto him, Orpah kissed [cf Mt 26:49] her said unto Naomi, Let me now Why have I found chen (favor, chamot; but Ruth clung unto go to the sadeh, and glean grace) in thine eyes, that thou her. heads of grain after him in shouldest take knowledge of |15| And she said, Hinei, thy whose sight I shall find chen me, seeing I am a nokhriyah sister-in-law is gone back unto (grace, favor). And she said (foreigner, alien)? her people, and unto her g-ds; unto her, Go, my daughter. |11| And Boaz answered and return thou after thy sister-in- |3| And she went, and came, said unto her, It hath fully law. and gleaned in the sadeh been shown me, all that thou |16| And Ruth said, Entreat behind the kotzerim hast done unto thy chamot me not to leave thee, or to (harvesters); and it so since the mot (death) of thine return from following after happened that she came on a ish; and how thou hast left thy thee; for whither thou goest, I part of the sadeh belonging av and thy em, and the eretz will go; and where thou unto Boaz, who was of the moledet, and art come unto lodgest, I will lodge; thy people mishpochah of Elimelech. an Am (people) which thou shall be my people, and thy |4| And, hinei, Boaz came knewest not heretofore. G-d shall be Elohai; from Beit-Lechem, and said |12| Hashem recompense thy |17| Where thou diest, will I unto the kotzerim, Hashem be work, and a full reward be die, and there will I be buried. with you. And they answered given thee of Hashem Elohei Hashem do so to me, and him, Yevarech'chah Adonoi Yisroel, more also, if anything but (Hashem bless thee). HaMavet part thee and me.