1拿俄米的丈夫以利米勒有個親戚，名叫波阿斯，是個有名望的財主。2摩押女子路得對拿俄米說：「讓我到田裡去，跟在那些願意恩待我的人後面，撿些麥穗回來。」拿俄米說：「去吧，我的女兒！」3於是，路得便去了。她恰巧來到以利米勒的親戚波阿斯的田裡，跟在收割的人後面撿麥穗。4當時，波阿斯剛好從伯利恆來到田間，向那些收割的工人問安說：「願耶和華與你們同在。」他們回答說：「願耶和華賜福與你。」5波阿斯問負責收割的工頭說：「那是誰家的女子？」6工頭回答說：「她是摩押女子，跟拿俄米剛從摩押回來。7她求我讓她跟在收割的人後面，撿工人紮捆時遺落的麥穗。她一大早就來到這裡，一直撿到現在，除了在涼棚裡稍微坐了一會兒之外，幾乎沒有休息。」8波阿斯對路得說：「姑娘*，聽我說，你不用到別人的田裡去拾麥穗了，也不必離開這裡，只管留下來跟我的女工在一起。9你看我的工人在哪一塊田裡收割，就跟著我的女工去，我已經吩咐工人不可欺負你。要是你渴了，就去水罐那裡喝工人打回來的水。」10路得就俯伏在地叩謝他，說：「我不過是個外族人，你為什麼這樣恩待我、體恤我？」11波阿斯說：「自從你丈夫過世之後，你怎樣善待婆婆，怎樣離開父母和家鄉來到素不相識的人當中，我都聽說了。12願耶和華照你所行的獎賞你！你來投靠在以色列的上帝耶和華的翅膀下，願祂厚厚地賞賜你。」13路得說：「我主啊！我真是在你面前蒙恩，雖然我連你的婢女都不如，你還好言安慰我。」14吃飯的時候，波阿斯對路得說：「來，吃一點餅吧，可以蘸著醋吃。」路得便坐在那些收割工人旁邊。波阿斯遞給她一些烤好的麥穗。她吃飽了，還有剩餘的。15當她起來又要去撿麥穗的時候，波阿斯就吩咐他的工人說：「你們要任由她撿，就算她在割下的麥子中撿麥穗，你們也不要為難她。16甚至要從麥捆中抽一些出來讓她撿，不要責罵她。」17於是，路得便在田間繼續撿麥穗，到了黃昏，她把撿到的麥穗打了，大約有十三公斤大麥。18她把撿來的麥子帶回城裡給婆婆拿俄米看，又把剩下來的食物給婆婆。19婆婆問她：「你今天在哪裡拾麥穗？在哪裡做工？願那善待你的人蒙福！」她就告訴婆婆說：「今天我在一個名叫波阿斯的人那裡工作。」20拿俄米說：「願耶和華賜福給他，他對活著的和過世的都是那麼有情有義。」拿俄米又對路得說：「這人是我們本族的人，是我們的一個近親。」21摩押女子路得說：「他還對我說，『你可以跟在我的工人後面撿麥穗，直到他們把我的莊稼都收完為止。』」22拿俄米對兒媳路得說：「我的女兒啊，你就跟他的女工一起到田裡去，免得去別人的田裡被欺負。」23因此，路得便常跟波阿斯的女工在一起撿麥穗，直到大麥小麥都收割完畢。路得就這樣陪伴婆婆過日子。
English Standard Version
Ruth Meets Boaz
1Now Naomi had a relative of her husband’s, a worthy man of the clan of Elimelech, whose name was Boaz.2And Ruth the Moabite said to Naomi, “Let me go to the field and glean among the ears of grain after him in whose sight I shall find favor.” And she said to her, “Go, my daughter.”3So she set out and went and gleaned in the field after the reapers, and she happened to come to the part of the field belonging to Boaz, who was of the clan of Elimelech.4And behold, Boaz came from Bethlehem. And he said to the reapers, “The Lord be with you!” And they answered, “The Lord bless you.”5Then Boaz said to his young man who was in charge of the reapers, “Whose young woman is this?”6And the servant who was in charge of the reapers answered, “She is the young Moabite woman, who came back with Naomi from the country of Moab.7She said, ‘Please let me glean and gather among the sheaves after the reapers.’ So she came, and she has continued from early morning until now, except for a short rest.”*8Then Boaz said to Ruth, “Now, listen, my daughter, do not go to glean in another field or leave this one, but keep close to my young women.9Let your eyes be on the field that they are reaping, and go after them. Have I not charged the young men not to touch you? And when you are thirsty, go to the vessels and drink what the young men have drawn.”10Then she fell on her face, bowing to the ground, and said to him, “Why have I found favor in your eyes, that you should take notice of me, since I am a foreigner?”11But Boaz answered her, “All that you have done for your mother-in-law since the death of your husband has been fully told to me, and how you left your father and mother and your native land and came to a people that you did not know before.12The Lord repay you for what you have done, and a full reward be given you by the Lord, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to take refuge!”13Then she said, “I have found favor in your eyes, my lord, for you have comforted me and spoken kindly to your servant, though I am not one of your servants.”14And at mealtime Boaz said to her, “Come here and eat some bread and dip your morsel in the wine.” So she sat beside the reapers, and he passed to her roasted grain. And she ate until she was satisfied, and she had some left over.15When she rose to glean, Boaz instructed his young men, saying, “Let her glean even among the sheaves, and do not reproach her.16And also pull out some from the bundles for her and leave it for her to glean, and do not rebuke her.”17So she gleaned in the field until evening. Then she beat out what she had gleaned, and it was about an ephah* of barley.18And she took it up and went into the city. Her mother-in-law saw what she had gleaned. She also brought out and gave her what food she had left over after being satisfied.19And her mother-in-law said to her, “Where did you glean today? And where have you worked? Blessed be the man who took notice of you.” So she told her mother-in-law with whom she had worked and said, “The man’s name with whom I worked today is Boaz.”20And Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, “May he be blessed by the Lord, whose kindness has not forsaken the living or the dead!” Naomi also said to her, “The man is a close relative of ours, one of our redeemers.”21And Ruth the Moabite said, “Besides, he said to me, ‘You shall keep close by my young men until they have finished all my harvest.’”22And Naomi said to Ruth, her daughter-in-law, “It is good, my daughter, that you go out with his young women, lest in another field you be assaulted.”23So she kept close to the young women of Boaz, gleaning until the end of the barley and wheat harvests. And she lived with her mother-in-law.
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