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Ruth","Category: Classics of Literature","Category: Mythology, Legends & Folklore","Category: Religion/Spirituality"],"text":"This eBook was produced by David Widger\nfrom etext #1581 prepared by Dennis McCarthy, Atlanta, Georgia\nand Tad Book, student, Pontifical North American College, Rome.\n\n\n\n\n\nTHE HOLY BIBLE\n\n\n\n\nTranslated from the Latin Vulgate\n\n\nDiligently Compared with the Hebrew, Greek,\nand Other Editions in Divers Languages\n\n\nTHE OLD TESTAMENT\nFirst Published by the English College at Douay\nA.D. 1609 & 1610\n\nand\n\nTHE NEW TESTAMENT\nFirst Published by the English College at Rheims\nA.D. 1582\n\n\nWith Annotations\n\n\nThe Whole Revised and Diligently Compared with\nthe Latin Vulgate by Bishop Richard Challoner\nA.D. 1749-1752\n\n\n\n\n\nTHE BOOK OF RUTH\n\nThis Book is called RUTH, from the name of the person whose history is\nhere recorded: who, being a Gentile, became a convert to the true faith,\nand marrying Booz, the great-grandfather of David, was one of those from\nwhom Christ sprung according to the flesh, and an illustrious figure of\nthe Gentile church. It is thought this book was written by the prophet\nSamuel.\n\n\nRuth Chapter 1\n\nElimelech of Bethlehem going with his wife Noemi, and two sons, into the\nland of Moab, dieth there. His sons marry wives of that country and die\nwithout issue. Noemi returneth home with her daughter in law Ruth, who\nrefuseth to part with her.\n\n1:1. In the days of the judges, when the judges ruled, there came a\nfamine in the land.  And a certain man of Bethlehem Juda, went to\nsojourn in the land of Moab with his wife and his two sons.\n\n1:2. He was named Elimelech, and his wife Noemi: and his two sons, the\none Mahalon, and the other Chelion, Ephrathites of Bethlehem Juda. And\nentering into the country of Moab, they abode there.\n\n1:3. And Elimelech the husband of Noemi died: and she remained with her\nsons.\n\n1:4. And they took wives of the women of Moab, of which one was called\nOrpha, and the other Ruth.  And they dwelt their ten years,\n\n1:5. And they both died, to wit, Mahalon and Chelion: and the woman was\nleft alone, having lost both her sons and her husband.\n\n1:6. And she arose to go from the land of Moab to her own country, with\nboth her daughters in law: for she had heard that the Lord had looked\nupon his people, and had given them food.\n\n1:7. Wherefore she went forth out of the place of her sojournment, with\nboth her daughters in law: and being now in the way to return into the\nland of Juda,\n\n1:8. She said to them: Go ye home to your mothers, the Lord deal\nmercifully with you, as you have dealt with the dead and with me.\n\n1:9. May he grant you to find rest in the houses of the husbands whom\nyou shall take. And she kissed them. And they lifted up their voice, and\nbegan to weep,\n\n1:10. And to say: We will go on with thee to thy people.\n\n1:11. But she answered them: Return, my daughters: why come ye with me?\nhave I any more sons in my womb, that you may hope for husbands of me?\n\n1:12. Return again, my daughters, and go your ways: for I am now spent\nwith age, and not fit for wedlock. Although I might conceive this night,\nand bear children,\n\n1:13. If you would wait till they were grown up, and come to man's\nestate, you would be old women before you marry. Do not so, my\ndaughters, I beseech you: for I am grieved the more for your distress,\nand the hand of the Lord is gone out against me.\n\n1:14. And they lifted up their voice, and began to weep again: Orpha\nkissed her mother in law, and returned: Ruth stuck close to her mother\nin law.\n\n1:15. And Noemi said to her: Behold thy kinswoman is returned to her\npeople, and to her gods, go thou with her.\n\nTo her gods, etc... Noemi did not mean to persuade Ruth to return to the\nfalse gods she had formerly worshipped: but by this manner of speech,\ninsinuated to her, that if she would go with her, she must renounce her\nfalse gods and return to the Lord the God of Israel.\n\n1:16. She answered: Be not against me, to desire that I should leave\nthee and depart: for whithersoever thou shalt go, I will go: and where\nthou shalt dwell, I also will dwell. Thy people shall be my people, and\nthy God my God.\n\n1:17. The land that shall receive thee dying, in the same will I die:\nand there will I be buried. The Lord do so and so to me, and add more\nalso, if aught but death part me and thee.\n\nThe Lord do so and so, etc... A form of swearing usual in the history of\nthe Old Testament, by which the person wished such and such evils to\nfall upon them, if they did not do what they said.\n\n1:18. Then Noemi seeing that Ruth was steadfastly determined to go with\nher, would not be against it, nor persuade her any more to return to her\nfriends:\n\n1:l9. So they went together, and came to Bethlehem.  And when they were\ncome into the city, the report was quickly spread among all: and the\nwomen said: This is that Noemi.\n\n1:20. But she said to them: Call me not Noemi (that is, beautiful,) but\ncall me Mara (that is, bitter), for the Almighty hath quite filled me\nwith bitterness.\n\n1:21. I went out full and the Lord hath brought me back empty. Why then\ndo you call me Noemi, whom the Lord hath humbled, and the Almighty hath\nafflicted?\n\n1:22. So Noemi came with Ruth, the Moabitess, her daughter in law, from\nthe land of her sojournment: and returned into Bethlehem, in the\nbeginning of the barley harvest.\n\nRuth Chapter 2\n\nRuth gleaneth in the field of Booz, who sheweth her favour.\n\n2:1. Now her husband Elimelech had a kinsman, a powerful man, and very\nrich, whose name was Booz.\n\n2:3. And Ruth, the Moabitess, said to her mother in law: If thou wilt, I\nwill go into the field, and glean the ears of corn that escape the hands\nof the reapers, wheresoever I shall find grace with a householder, that\nwill be favourable to me. And she answered her: Go, my daughter.\n\n2:3. She went, therefore, and gleaned the ears of corn after the\nreapers. And it happened that the owner of that field was Booz, who was\nof the kindred of Elimelech.\n\n2:4. And behold, he came out of Bethlehem, and said to the reapers: The\nLord be with you. And they answered him: The Lord bless thee.\n\n2:5. And Booz said to the young man that was set over the reapers: Whose\nmaid is this?\n\n2:6. And he answered him: This is the Moabitess, who came with Noemi,\nfrom the land of Moab,\n\n2:7. And she desired leave to glean the ears of corn that remain,\nfollowing the steps of the reapers: and she hath been in the field from\nmorning till now, and hath not gone home for one moment.\n\n2:8. And Booz said to Ruth: Hear me, daughter, do not go to glean in any\nother field, and do not depart from this place: but keep with my maids,\n\n2:9. And follow where they reap. For I have charged my young men, not to\nmolest thee: and if thou art thirsty, go to the vessels, and drink of\nthe waters whereof the servants drink.\n\n2:l0. She fell on her face, and worshipping upon the ground, said to\nhim: Whence cometh this to me, that I should find grace before thy eyes,\nand that thou shouldst vouchsafe to take notice of me, a woman of\nanother country?\n\n2:11. And he answered her: All hath been told me, that thou hast done to\nthy mother in law after the death of thy husband: and how thou hast left\nthy parents, and the land wherein thou wast born, and art come to a\npeople which thou knewest not heretofore.\n\n2:12. The Lord render unto thee for thy work, and mayst thou receive a\nfull reward of the Lord the God of Israel, to whom thou art come, and\nunder whose wings thou art fled.\n\n2:13. And she said: I have found grace in thy eyes, my lord, who hast\ncomforted me, and hast spoken to the heart of thy handmaid, who am not\nlike to one of thy maids.\n\n2:14. And Booz said to her: At mealtime come thou hither, and eat of the\nbread, and dip thy morsel in the vinegar. So she sat at the side of the\nreapers, and she heaped to herself frumenty, and ate and was filled, and\ntook the leavings.\n\n2:15. And she arose from thence, to glean the ears of corn as before.\nAnd Booz commanded his servants, saying: If she would even reap with\nyou, hinder her not:\n\n2:16. And let fall some of your handfuls of purpose, and leave them,\nthat she may gather them without shame, and let no man rebuke her when\nshe gathereth them.\n\n2:17. She gleaned therefore in the field till evening: and beating out\nwith a rod, and threshing what she had gleaned, she found about the\nmeasure of an ephi of barley, that is, three bushels:\n\n2:18. Which she took up, and returned into the city, and shewed it to\nher mother in law: moreover, she brought out, and gave her of the\nremains of her meat, wherewith she had been filled.\n\n2:19. And her mother in law said to her: Where hast thou gleaned today,\nand where hast thou wrought?  blessed be he that hath had pity on thee.\nAnd she told her with whom she had wrought: and she told the man's name,\nthat he was called Booz.\n\n2:20. And Noemi answered her: Blessed be he of the Lord: because the\nsame kindness which he shewed to the living, he hath kept also to the\ndead. And again she said: The man is our kinsman.\n\n2:21. And Ruth said: He also charged me, that I should keep close to his\nreapers, till all the corn should be reaped.\n\n2:22. And her mother in law said to her: It is better for thee, my\ndaughter, to go out to reap with his maids, lest in another man's field\nsome one may resist thee.\n\n2:23. So she kept close to the maids of Booz: and continued to glean\nwith them, till all the barley and the wheat were laid up in the barns.\n\nRuth Chapter 3\n\nRuth instructed by her mother in law lieth at Booz's feet, claiming him\nfor her husband by the law of affinity: she receiveth a good answer, and\nsix measures of barley.\n\n3:1. After she was returned to her mother in law, Noemi said to her: My\ndaughter, I will seek rest for thee, and will provide that it may be\nwell with thee.\n\n3:2. This Booz, with whose maids thou wast joined in the field, is our\nnear kinsman, and behold this night he winnoweth barley in the\nthreshingfloor.\n\n3:3. Wash thyself therefore and anoint thee, and put on thy best\ngarments, and go down to the barnfloor: but let not the man see thee,\ntill he shall have done eating and drinking.\n\n3:4. And when he shall go to sleep, mark the place wherein he sleepeth:\nand thou shalt go in, and lift up the clothes wherewith he is covered\ntowards his feet, and shalt lay thyself down there: and he will tell\nthee what thou must do.\n\n3:5. She answered: Whatsoever thou shalt command, I will do.\n\n3:6. And she went down to the barnfloor, and did all that her mother in\nlaw had bid her.\n\n3:7. And when Booz had eaten, and drunk, and was merry, he went to sleep\nby the heap of sheaves, and she came softly, and uncovering his feet,\nlaid herself down.\n\n3:8. And behold, when it was now midnight the man was afraid, and\ntroubled: and he saw a woman lying at his feet,\n\n3:9. And he said to her: Who art thou? And she answered: I am Ruth, thy\nhandmaid: spread thy coverlet over thy servant, for thou art a near\nkinsman.\n\n3:10. And he said: Blessed art thou of the Lord, my daughter, and thy\nlatter kindness has surpassed the former: because thou hast not followed\nyoung men either poor or rich.\n\nThy latter kindness, viz... to thy husband deceased in seeking to keep\nup his name and family by marrying his relation according to the law,\nand not following after young men. For Booz, it seems, was then in\nyears.\n\n3:11. Fear not therefore, but whatsoever thou shalt say to me I will do\nto thee. For all the people that dwell within the gates of my city, know\nthat thou art a virtuous woman.\n\n3:12. Neither do I deny myself to be near of kin, but there is another\nnearer than I.\n\n3:13. Rest thou this night: and when morning is come, if he will take\nthee by the right of kindred, all is well: but if he will not, I will\nundoubtedly take thee, so the Lord liveth: sleep till the morning.\n\n3:14. So she slept at his feet till the night was going off. And she\narose before men could know one another, and Booz said: Beware lest any\nman know that thou camest hither.\n\n3:15. And again he said: Spread thy mantle, wherewith thou art covered,\nand hold it with both hands.  And when she spread it and held it, he\nmeasured six measures of barley, and laid it upon her. And she carried\nit, and went into the city,\n\n3:16. And came to her mother in law; who said to her: What hast thou\ndone, daughter? And she told her all that the man had done to her.\n\n3:17. And she said: Behold he hath given me six measures of barley: for\nhe said: I will not have thee return empty to thy mother in law.\n\n3:18. And Noemi said: Wait, my daughter, till we see what end the thing\nwill have. For the man will not rest until he have accomplished what he\nhath said.\n\nRuth Chapter 4\n\nUpon the refusal of the nearer kinsman, Booz marrieth Ruth, who bringeth\nforth Obed, the grandfather of David.\n\n4:1 Then Booz went up to the gate, and sat there.  And when he had seen\nthe kinsman going by, of whom he had spoken before, he said to him,\ncalling him by his name: Turn aside for a little while, and sit down\nhere. He turned aside, and sat down.\n\n4:2. And Booz, taking ten men of the ancients of the city, said to them:\nSit ye down here.\n\n4:3. They sat down, and he spoke to the kinsman: Noemi, who is returned\nfrom the country of Moab will sell a parcel of land that belonged to our\nbrother Elimelech.\n\n4:4. I would have thee to understand this, and would tell thee before\nall that sit here, and before the ancients of my people. If thou wilt\ntake possession of it by the right of kindred: buy it, and possess it:\nbut if it please thee not, tell me so, that I may know what I have to\ndo. For there is no near kinsman besides thee, who art first, and me,\nwho am second. But he answered: I will buy the field.\n\n4:5. And Booz said to him: When thou shalt buy the field at the woman's\nhand, thou must take also Ruth, the Moabitess, who was the wife of the\ndeceased: to raise up the name of thy kinsman in his inheritance.\n\n4:6. He answered: I yield up my right of next akin: for I must not cut\noff the posterity of my own family. Do thou make use of my privilege,\nwhich I profess I do willingly forego.\n\n4:7. Now this in former times was the manner in Israel between kinsmen,\nthat if at any time one yielded his right to another: that the grant\nmight be sure, the man put off his shoe and gave it to his neighbour;\nthis was a testimony of cession of right in Israel.\n\n4:8. So Booz said to his kinsman: Put off thy shoe. And immediately he\ntook it off from his foot.\n\n4:9. And he said to the ancients, and to all the people: You are\nwitnesses this day, that I have bought all that was Elimelech's, and\nChelion's, and Mahalon's, of the hand of Noemi:\n\n4:10. And have taken to wife Ruth, the Moabitess, the wife of Mahalon,\nto raise up the name of the deceased in his inheritance lest his name be\ncut off, from among his family and his brethren and his people. You, I\nsay, are witnesses of this thing.\n\n4:11. Then all the people that were in the gate, and the ancients,\nanswered: We are witnesses: The Lord make this woman who cometh into thy\nhouse, like Rachel, and Lia, who built up the house of Israel: that she\nmay be an example of virtue in Ephrata, and may have a famous name in\nBethlehem:\n\nEphrata... Another name of Bethlehem.\n\n4:12. And that the house may be, as the house of Phares, whom Thamar\nbore unto Juda, of the seed which the Lord shall give thee of this young\nwoman.\n\n4:13. Booz therefore took Ruth, and married her: and went in unto her,\nand the Lord gave her to conceive, and to bear a son.\n\n4:14. And the women said to Noemi: Blessed be the Lord, who hath not\nsuffered thy family to want a successor: that his name should be\npreserved in Israel.\n\n4:15. And thou shouldst have one to comfort thy soul, and cherish thy\nold age. For he is born of thy daughter in law: who loveth thee: and is\nmuch better to thee, than if thou hadst seven sons.\n\n4:16. And Noemi taking the child, laid it in her bosom, and she carried\nit, and was a nurse unto it.\n\n4:17. And the women, her neighbours, congratulating with her, and\nsaying, There is a son born to Noemi, called his name Obed: he is the\nfather of Isai, the father of David.\n\n4:18. These are the generations of Phares: Phares begot Esron,\n\n4:19. Esron begot Aram, Aram begot Aminadab,\n\n4:20. Aminadab begot Nahasson, Nahasson begot Salmon,\n\n4:21. Salmon begot Booz, Booz begot Obed,\n\n4:22. Obed begot Isai, Isai begot David.","title":"The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 08: Ruth: The Challoner Revision","tradition":"myth-cosmogony","translated_text":null,"word_count":3091}