These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
BIBLES
King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
Ruth 2
Tanakh 23 verses
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And had a kinsman of her husband’s, a mighty man of valour, of the family of Elimelech, and his was .
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And the Moabitess said unto : ‘Let me now go to the field, and glean among the ears of corn after him in whose sight I shall find favour.’ And she said unto her: ‘Go, my daughter.’
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And she went, and came and gleaned in the field after the reapers; and her hap was to light on the portion of the field belonging unto , who was of the family of Elimelech.
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- 4 And, behold, came from Beth-lehem, and said unto the reapers: ‘The be with you.’ And they answered him: ‘The thee.’
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Then said unto his that was set over the reapers: ‘Whose damsel is this?’
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And the that was set over the reapers answered and said: ‘It is a Moabitish damsel that came back with out of the field of ;
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- 7 and she said: Let me glean, I pray you, and gather after the reapers among the sheaves; so she came, and hath continued even from the morning until now, that she tarried a little in the house.’
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Then said unto : ‘Hearest thou not, my daughter? Go not to glean in another field, neither pass from hence, but abide here fast by my maidens.
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Let thine eyes be on the field that they do reap, and go thou after them; have I not charged the young men that they shall not touch thee? and when thou art athirst, go unto the vessels, and drink of that which the young men have drawn.’
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- 10 Then she fell on her , and bowed down to the ground, and said unto him: ‘Why have I found favour in thy sight, that thou shouldest take cognizance of me, seeing I am a foreigner?’
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And answered and said unto her: ‘It hath fully been told me, all that thou hast done unto thy mother-in- since the death of thy husband; and how thou hast left thy father and thy mother, and the land of thy nativity, and art come unto a people that thou knewest not heretofore.
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The recompense thy work, and be thy reward complete from , the of , under whose wings thou art come to take refuge.’
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Psalm 91:4 Psalm 36:7 Psalm 57:1 Psalm 63:7 Psalm 17:8 Psalm 61:4 1 Samuel 24:19 Ruth 1:16 Matthew 23:37 Psalm 58:11 Psalm 19:11 Luke 6:35 Luke 14:12-14 Proverbs 11:18 Matthew 10:41-42 2 Timothy 1:18 Colossians 2:18 Hebrews 11:6 Hebrews 6:10 Proverbs 23:18 Matthew 5:12 Hebrews 11:26 Matthew 6:1 2 Timothy 4:8 - 13 Then she said: ‘Let me find favour in thy sight, my ; for that thou hast comforted me, and for that thou hast spoken to the of thy handmaid, though I be not as one of thy handmaidens.’
- 14 And said unto her at meal-time: ‘Come hither, and eat of the bread, and dip thy morsel in the vinegar.’ And she sat beside the reapers; and they reached her parched corn, and she did eat and was satisfied, and left thereof.
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And when she was risen up to glean, commanded his young men, saying: ‘Let her glean even among the sheaves, and put her not to shame.
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- 16 And also pull out some for her of purpose from the bundles, and leave it, and let her glean, and rebuke her not.’
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So she gleaned in the field until even; and she beat out that which she had gleaned, and it was about an ephah of barley.
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And she took it up, and went into the city; and her mother-in- saw what she had gleaned; and she brought forth and gave to her that which she had left after she was satisfied.
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And her mother-in- said unto her: ‘Where hast thou gleaned to-day? and where wroughtest thou? blessed be he that did take knowledge of thee.’ And she told her mother-in- with whom she had wrought, and said: ‘The man’s with whom I wrought to-day is .’
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- 20 And said unto her daughter-in-: ‘Blessed be he of , who hath not left off His kindness to the living and to the dead.’ And said unto her: ‘The man is nigh of kin unto us, one of our near kinsmen.’
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And the Moabitess said: ‘Yea, he said unto me: Thou shalt keep fast by my young men, until they have ended all my harvest.’
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And said unto her daughter-in-: ‘It is good, my daughter, that thou go out with his maidens, and that thou be not met in any other field.’
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So she kept fast by the maidens of to glean unto the end of barley harvest and of wheat harvest; and she dwelt with her mother-in-.
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