Anonymous

“ It happened, when they were come to Bethlehem, that all the city was moved about them, and [the women] said, Is this Naomi? 001:020 She said to them, "Don't call me Naomi, call me Mara; for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me. 001:021 I went out full, and Yahweh has brought me home again empty; why do you call me Naomi, seeing Yahweh has testified against me, and the Almighty has afflicted me?" 001:022 So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter-in-law, with her, who returned out of the country of Moab: and they came to Bethlehem in the beginning of barley harvest. ”

“ Yahweh make the woman who has come into your house like Rachel and like Leah, which two built the house of Israel: and do you worthily in Ephrathah, and be famous in Bethlehem: 004:012 and let your house be like the house of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah, of the seed which Yahweh shall give you of this young woman. 004:013 So Boaz took Ruth, and she became his wife; and he went in to her, and Yahweh gave her conception, and she bore a son. 004:014 The women said to Naomi, Blessed be Yahweh, who has not left you this day without a near kinsman ”

“ She shown her mother-in-law with whom she had worked, and said, The man's name with whom I worked today is Boaz. 002:020 Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, Blessed be he of Yahweh, who has not left off his kindness to the living and to the dead. Naomi said to her, The man is a close relative to us, one of our near kinsmen. 002:021 Ruth the Moabitess said, Yes, he said to me, You shall keep fast by my young men, until they have ended all my harvest. ”

“ She told her all that the man had done to her. 003:017 She said, These six [measures] of barley gave he me; for he said, "Don't go empty to your mother-in-law." 003:018 Then said she, "Sit still, my daughter, until you know how the matter will fall; for the man will not rest, until he has finished the thing this day." 004:001 Now Boaz went up to the gate, and sat him down there: and behold, the near kinsman of whom Boaz spoke came by ”