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18 路得把所拾取的帶進城去給婆婆看,又把她吃飽所剩的拿出來,給了婆婆。 19 婆婆問她說:「你今日在哪裏拾取麥穗?在哪裏做工呢?願那照顧你的得福。」路得告訴婆婆,她在誰那裏做工,說:「我今日在一個名叫波阿斯的人那裏做工。」 20 拿娥米對媳婦說:「願那人蒙耶和華賜福,因為他不斷地恩待活人死人。」拿娥米又對她說:「那人是我們本族的人,是一個可以贖我們產業的至親。」

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18 She carried it back to town, and her mother-in-law saw how much she had gathered. Ruth also brought out and gave her what she had left over(A) after she had eaten enough.

19 Her mother-in-law asked her, “Where did you glean today? Where did you work? Blessed be the man who took notice of you!(B)

Then Ruth told her mother-in-law about the one at whose place she had been working. “The name of the man I worked with today is Boaz,” she said.

20 “The Lord bless him!(C)” Naomi said to her daughter-in-law.(D) “He has not stopped showing his kindness(E) to the living and the dead.” She added, “That man is our close relative;(F) he is one of our guardian-redeemers.[a](G)

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Footnotes

  1. Ruth 2:20 The Hebrew word for guardian-redeemer is a legal term for one who has the obligation to redeem a relative in serious difficulty (see Lev. 25:25-55).