1Noemi tinha em Belém um parente de Elimeleque, seu marido; era um homem muito rico chamado Boaz.2Em certa ocasião, Rute disse a Noemi: “Olha, vou sair pelos campos para ver se apanho as espigas que vão caindo atrás daquele que for amável comigo.” Ela respondeu-lhe: “Pois sim, minha filha, vai lá então!”3E ela foi e aconteceu que o campo para onde foi era precisamente do tal Boaz que era da família de Elimeleque.4Boaz apareceu por lá, vindo da cidade, enquanto Rute ali estava e saudou os ceifeiros: “O SENHOR esteja convosco!” E eles responderam: “O SENHOR te abençoe!”5A seguir, perguntou ao capataz: “Escuta, de quem é aquela rapariga que ali está?”6“É a moabita que veio com Noemi.7Pediu-me esta manhã se podia apanhar as espigas que os ceifeiros deixavam caídas e tem estado sempre aqui, exceto quando foi descansar um pouco à sombra.”8Boaz foi ter com ela para lhe falar: “Minha filha, fica aqui connosco neste campo a apanhar espigas. Não precisas de ir a outros campos. Junta-te às moças que aí estão a trabalhar.9Já avisei os rapazes para não te incomodarem; quando tiveres sede vai beber à tua vontade.”10Ela agradeceu-lhe muito: “Não há razão para seres assim tão amável comigo. Eu não passo duma estrangeira.”11“Sim, eu sei. Mas sei também de toda a afeição e carinho que tens mostrado para com a tua sogra, desde a morte do teu marido, e como preferiste deixar o teu pai e a tua mãe para viver entre estranhos.12Que o SENHOR, Deus de Israel, sob cujas asas vieste refugiar-te, te abençoe por tudo.”13“Agradeço-te muito. Foste muito bom para mim, não sendo eu sequer uma empregada tua!”14À hora do almoço, Boaz chamou-a: “Vem comer connosco.” Rute veio sentar-se junto dos ceifeiros e ele serviu-a generosamente, muito mais do que podia comer.15Quando a jovem voltou ao trabalho, Boaz disse ao capataz que a deixasse apanhar mesmo entre os feixes sem lhe dizer nada;16e que fizessem de propósito deixar cair espigas, sem que ela se sentisse incomodada por as apanhar.17Assim, ficou ali o dia todo. Ao fim da tarde, quando foi juntar o que debulhara, contou uns 22 litros!18Trouxe o grão para a povoação e entregou-o à sogra, e também o que lhe sobejara do almoço.19“Mas tanto!”, exclamou Noemi. “Onde é que andaste hoje a apanhar? Que Deus abençoe quem foi tão generoso contigo!” E Rute contou-lhe tudo o que se passara, dizendo que o dono do campo se chamava Boaz.20“Que o SENHOR seja louvado, porque continua a ser bondoso para com os vivos, tanto quanto para com os que já morreram!”, exclamou Noemi comovida. “Porque esse homem é um dos nossos parentes mais chegados!”21“Ele disse-me para lá ficar a apanhar espigas, atrás dos ceifeiros, até que todo o campo estivesse ceifado.”22“Isso é maravilhoso! Ouve bem: faz conforme ele te disse. Fica lá com as outras moças até ao fim da ceifa. Ali estarás mais segura do que em qualquer outro campo!”23Rute assim fez, indo lá apanhar espigas até ao fim das ceifas, tanto da cevada como do trigo. E ficou a viver com a sogra.
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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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