Ruth 2

uleno'omi (myd) [moda] le'ishah ish gibbor khayil mimmishpakhat elimelekh ushemo bo'az

Now Naomi had a kinsman on her husband’s side, a man of substance, of the family of Elimelech, whose name was Boaz.

vattomer rut hammo'aviyyah el-no'omi elekhah-nna hassadeh va'alaqqotah vashibbolim akhar asher emtsa-khen be'enayw vattomer lah lekhi vitti

Ruth the Moabite said to Naomi, “I would like to go to the fields and glean among the ears of grain, behind someone who may show me kindness.” “Yes, daughter, go,” she replied;

vattelekh vattavo vattelaqqet bassadeh akhare haqqotserim vayyiqer miqreha khelqat hassadeh levo'az asher mimmishpakhat elimelekh

and off she went. She came and gleaned in a field, behind the reapers; and, as luck would have it, it was the piece of land belonging to Boaz, who was of Elimelech’s family.

vehinneh-vo'az ba mibbet lekhem vayyomer laqqotserim Adonai immakhem vayyomeru lo yevarekhkha Adonai

Presently Boaz arrived from Bethlehem. He greeted the reapers, “GOD be with you!” And they responded, “GOD bless you!”

vayyomer bo'az lena'aro hannitsav al-haqqotserim lemi hanna'arah hazzot

Boaz said to the servant who was in charge of the reapers, “Whose girl is that?”

vayya'an hanna'ar hannitsav al-haqqotserim vayyomar na'arah mo'aviyyah hi hashavah im-no'omi missede mo'av

The servant in charge of the reapers replied, “She is a Moabite who came back with Naomi from the country of Moab.

vattomer alaqqotah-nna ve'asafti vo'omarim akhare haqqotserim vattavo vatta'amod me'az habboqer ve'ad-attah zeh shivtah habbayit me'at

She said, ‘Please let me glean and gather among the sheaves behind the reapers.’ She has been on her feet ever since she came this morning. She has hardly rested at all in the hut.”

vayyomer bo'az el-rut halo shama'at bitti al-telekhi lilqot besadeh akher vegam lo ta'avuri mizzeh vekhoh tidbaqin im-na'arotay

Boaz said to Ruth, “Listen to me, daughter. Don’t go to glean in another field. Don’t go elsewhere, but stay here close to my maidservants.

enayikh bassadeh asher-yiqtsorun vehalakht akharehen halo tsivviti et-hanne'arim levilti nogekh vetsamit vehalakht el-hakkelim veshatit me'asher yishavun hanne'arim

Keep your eyes on the field they are reaping, and follow them. I have ordered the workers not to harass you. And when you are thirsty, go to the jars and drink some of [the water] that the workers have drawn.”

vattippol al-paneha vattishtakhu aretsah vattomer elayw maddua matsati khen be'enekha lehakkireni ve'anokhi nokhriyyah

She prostrated herself with her face to the ground, and said to him, “Why are you so kind as to single me out, when I am a foreigner?”

vayya'an bo'az vayyomer lah hugged huggad li kol asher-asit et-khamotekh akhare mot ishekh vatta'azvi avikh ve'immekh ve'erets moladtekh vattelekhi el-am asher lo-yada'att temol shilshom

Boaz said in reply, “I have been told of all that you did for your mother-in-law after the death of your husband, how you left your father and mother and the land of your birth and came to a people you had not known before.

yeshallem Adonai po'olekh utehi maskurtekh shelemah me'im Adonai elohe yisra'el asher-bat lakhasot takhat-kenafayw

May GOD reward your deeds. May you have a full recompense from the ETERNAL, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have sought refuge!”

vattomer emtsa-khen be'enekha adoni ki nikhamtani vekhi dibbarta al-lev shifkhatekha ve'anokhi lo ehyeh ke'akhat shifkhotekha

She answered, “You are most kind, my lord, to comfort me and to speak gently to your maidservant—though I am not so much as one of your maidservants.”

vayyomer lah vo'az le'et ha'okhel goshi halom ve'akhalt min-hallekhem vetavalt pittekh bakhomets vatteshev mitsad haqqotserim vayyitsbot-lah qali vattokhal vattisba vattotar

At mealtime, Boaz said to her, “Come over here and partake of the meal, and dip your morsel in the vinegar.” So she sat down beside the reapers. He handed her parched grain, and she ate her fill and had some left over.

vattaqom lelaqqet vayetsav bo'az et-ne'arayw lemor gam ben ho'omarim telaqqet velo takhlimuha

When she got up again to glean, Boaz gave orders to his workers, “You are not only to let her glean among the sheaves, without interference,

vegam shol-tashollu lah min-hatsevatim va'azavtem veliqqetah velo tigaru-vah

but you must also pull some [stalks] out of the heaps and leave them for her to glean, and not scold her.”

vattelaqqet bassadeh ad-ha'arev vattakhbot et asher-liqqetah vayehi ke'efah se'orim

She gleaned in the field until evening. Then she beat out what she had gleaned—it was about an ephah of barley—

vattissa vattavo ha'ir vattere khamotah et asher-liqqetah vattotse vattitten-lah et asher-hotirah missovah

and carried it back with her to the town. When her mother-in-law saw what she had gleaned, and when she also took out and gave her what she had left over after eating her fill,

vattomer lah khamotah efoh liqqatt hayyom ve'anah asit yehi makkirekh barukh vattagged lakhamotah et asher-asetah immo vattomer shem ha'ish asher asiti immo hayyom bo'az

her mother-in-law asked her, “Where did you glean today? Where did you work? Blessed be he who took such generous notice of you!” So she told her mother-in-law whom she had worked with, saying, “The name of the man with whom I worked today is Boaz.”

vattomer no'omi lekhallatah barukh hu la-Adonai asher lo-azav khasdo et-hakhayyim ve'et-hammetim vattomer lah no'omi qarov lanu ha'ish miggo'alenu hu

Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, “Blessed be he of GOD, who has not failed to show kindness to the living or to the dead! For,” Naomi explained to her daughter-in-law, “the man is related to us; he is one of our redeeming kinsmen.”

vattomer rut hammo'aviyyah gam ki-amar elay im-hanne'arim asher-li tidbaqin ad im-killu et kol-haqqatsir asher-li

Ruth the Moabite said, “He even told me, ‘Stay close by my workers until all my harvest is finished.’”

vattomer no'omi el-rut kallatah tov bitti ki tetse'i im-na'arotayw velo yifge'u-vakh besadeh akher

And Naomi answered her daughter-in-law Ruth, “It is best, daughter, that you go out with his maidservants, and not be accosted in some other field.”

vattidbaq bena'arot bo'az lelaqqet ad-kelot qetsir-hasse'orim uqetsir hakhittim vatteshev et-khamotah

So she stayed close to the maidservants of Boaz, and gleaned until the barley harvest and the wheat harvest were finished. Then she stayed at home with her mother-in-law.