Ruth

4 chapters

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1. 1By occasion of famine Elimelech of Bethlehem going with his wife Noemi, and two sons, into the Land of Moab, there dieth. 4. His sons marry wives of that country, and die without issue. 6. Noemi returning homewards hardly persuadeth one of her daughters in law, to part from her. 15. The other, called Ruth, will needs go with her, professing the same God and Religion. 19. So these two arrive in Bethlehem.
2. 2Ruth gathering ears of corn in Booz field, 8. he kindly biddeth her tarry with his servants. 17. At night she returneth carrying good quantity of corn, and part of the meat, which they gave her, to her mother in law.
3. 3Ruth instructed by her mother in law sleepeth at Booz feet, 8. and signifying that she pertaineth to him by the law of affinity, receiveth a good answer. 14. and six measures of barley.
4. 4Booz before the ancients of the city ( the nearer kinsman refusing ) possesseth the inheritance of Elimelech, 10. and marrieth Ruth. 13. Hath by her a son the grandfather of David. 18. Whose genealogy by this occasion is recited, from Phares the son of Judas the patriarch.