Ruth
In the days when the judges ruled there was a famine in the land, and a man of Bethlehem in Judah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he and his wife and his two sons. 2 The name of the man was Elimelech and the name of his wife Naomi, and the names of his two sons were Mahlon and Chilion. They were Ephrathites from Bethlehem in Judah. They went into the country of Moab and remained there.4 These took Moabite wives; the name of the one was Orpah and the name of the other Ruth. They lived there about ten years, 5 and both Mahlon and Chilion died, so that the woman was left without her two sons and her husband.
7 So she set out from the place where she was with her
two daughters-in-law, and they went on the way to return to the land of
Judah. 8 But Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, “Go, return
each of you to her mother's house. May the Lord deal kindly with you, as you
have dealt with the dead and with me. And Orpah kissed her mother-in-law,
but Ruth clung to her. 16 But Ruth said, “Do not urge me to leave
you or to return from following you. For where you go I will go, and where you
lodge I will lodge. Your people shall be my people, and your God my God.
22 So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabite her
daughter-in-law with her, who returned from the country of Moab. And they came
to Bethlehem at the beginning of barley harvest. So 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,8 Then 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. 10 Then 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?” 11 But
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. 12 The 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!” 13 Then 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.”
13 So Boaz took Ruth, and she became his wife. And he
went in to her, and the Lord gave her conception, and she bore a son. Boaz
fathered Obed, 22 Obed fathered Jesse, and Jesse fathered David.
The Holy Bible, English Standard Version.
ESV® Text Edition: 2016. Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing
ministry of Good News Publishers.
Illustration from a woodcut by Baron
Julius Schnoor von Carolsfeld, 1794-1872, a distinguished German artist known
especially for his book, Das Buch der Bücher in Bilden (The Book of Books in
Pictures). © WELS used by permission for personal and congregational use.
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