Rute 3

¹ Then Naomi her mother in law said unto her, My daughter, shall I not seekMeaning that she would provide her with a husband, with whom she might live peacefully.rest for thee, that it may be well with thee?

² Now also is not Boaz our kinsman, with whose maides thou wast? beholde, he winoweth barly to night in the floore.

³ Wash thyself therefore, and anoint thee, and put thy raiment upon thee, and get thee down to the floor: [but] make not thyself known unto theBoaz, nor yet any other.man, until he shall have done eating and drinking.

⁴ And when he shall sleepe, marke the place where he layeth him downe, and go, and vncouer the place of his feete, and lay thee downe, and he shall tell thee what thou shalt doe.

⁵ And she answered her, All that thou biddest me, I will doe.

⁶ So she went downe vnto the floore, and did according to all that her mother in lawe bade her.

⁷ And when Boaz had eaten and drunk, and hisThat is, he had refreshed himself among his servants.heart was merry, he went to lie down at the end of the heap of corn: and she came softly, and uncovered his feet, and laid her down.

⁸ And at midnight the man was afraide and caught holde: and loe, a woman lay at his feete.

⁹ Then he sayd, Who art thou? And she answered, I am Ruth thine handmayd: spread therefore the wing of thy garment ouer thine handmayd: for thou art the kinsman.

¹⁰ And he said, Blessed [be] thou of the LORD, my daughter: [for] thou hastYou showed yourself repeatedly to be more virtuous.shewed more kindness in the latter end than at the beginning, inasmuch as thou followedst not young men, whether poor or rich.

¹¹ And now, my daughter, feare not: I will doe to thee all that thou requirest: for all the citie of my people doeth knowe, that thou art a vertuous woman.

¹² And now, it is true that I am thy kinsman, howbeit there is a kinsman neerer then I.

¹³ Tarry this night, and it shall be in the morning, [that] if heIf he will take you to as his wife because of his relation by marriage, according to God's law, (Deu_25:5).will perform unto thee the part of a kinsman, well; let him do the kinsman's part: but if he will not do the part of a kinsman to thee, then will I do the part of a kinsman to thee, [as] the LORD liveth: lie down until the morning.

¹⁴ And she lay at his feete vntill the morning: and she arose before one could know another: for he sayd, Let no man knowe, that a woman came into the floore.

¹⁵ Also he sayd, Bring the sheete that thou hast vpon thee, and holde it; when she helde it, he measured sixe measures of barly, and layde them on her, and she went into the citie.

¹⁶ And when she came to her mother in law, she said,Believing by her returning home that he had not taken her as his wife, she was astonished.Who [art] thou, my daughter? And she told her all that the man had done to her.

¹⁷ And said, These sixe measures of barly gaue he me: for he sayd to me, Thou shalt not come emptie vnto thy mother in lawe.

¹⁸ Then sayd she, My daughter, sit still, vntill thou knowe how the thing will fall: for the man wil not be in rest, vntill he hath finished the matter this same day.