In the days when the judges ruled, there was a famine on earth. And one man went from Bethlehem of Judea with his wife and his two sons to live in the fields of Moab.The name of the man is Elimelech, the name of his wife Naomi, and the names of his two sons are Mahlon and Chileon; they were  Ephrahites from Bethlehem of Judea. And they came to the fields of Moab and remained there.And Elimelech the husband of Naomi died, and she remained with her two sons.

They took to themselves wives from the Moabites, the name of one of Orff, and the name of another of Ruth, and lived there for about ten years.But then both [her sons], Makhlon and Chileon, died, and that woman remained after both her sons and after her husband.

And she arose with her daughters-in-law and went back from the fields of Moab, for she had heard in the fields of Moab that God had visited his people and given them bread.And she came out of the place in which she lived, and her two daughters-in-law with her. As they walked along the road, returning to the land of Judea,Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law: go, each to return to his mother’s house; may the Lord give mercy to you, as you did to the dead and to me!May the Lord give you, so that you can find refuge in the house of your husband! And kissed them.

But they raised a cry and criedand they said: No, you and I will return to your people.

Naomi said: Come back, my daughters; why do you have to go with me? Do I still have sons in my womb who would be your husbands?Return, my daughters, go, for I am already old to be married. Yes, even if I said: “I still have hope”, and even if I were with my husband this very night and then gave birth to sons, -can you wait until they grow? can you procrastinate and not get married? No, my daughters, I greatly lament for you, for the hand of the Lord has befallen me.

They raised a cry and again began to cry. And Orpha bid farewell to her mother-in-law [and returned to her people], and Ruth remained with her.[Naomi] said [Ruth]: behold, your daughter-in-law has returned to her people and to her gods; come back and you after your daughter-in-law.

But Ruth said: Do not force me to leave you and return from you; but wherever you go, there I will go, and where you will live, there I will live; your people will be my people, and your God will be my God;and where you die, there I will die and I will be buried; may the Lord do this and that to me, and do even more; death alone will separate me from you.

[Naomi,] seeing that she was determined to go with her, she stopped persuading her.

And they both went until they came to Bethlehem. When they came to Bethlehem, the whole city came into motion from them, and said: is this Naomi?

She told them: do not call me Naomi, but call me Mary because the Almighty sent me great sorrow;i left here in abundance, and the Lord returned me empty-handed; why call me Naomi when the Lord made me suffer, and the Almighty sent me misfortune?

And Naomi returned, and with her daughter-in-law Ruth the Moabite, who came from the fields of Moab, and they came to Bethlehem at the beginning of the harvest of barley.

1.20:   Pleasant.

A tale that brightly paints the patriarchal life of that time. The story of how poor Ruth gathered ears on the harvest of rich Boaz, as the latter, paying attention to her, ordered the workers to leave more under-harvested ears, how, on the advice of her mother-in-law, Ruth bashfully showed his kinship rights to Boaz and how the latter confirmed to the elders of the city his right to it is stated with inimitable simplicity and sincerity.

The book is divided into four chapters.

• The first tells of the famine in the Land of Israel because of which Elimelech with his wife Noamin and two sons go to Moab. There the sons marry the Moabites, and then Elimelech and his two sons die. Noamin stays with two sister-in-law Ruth and Orff. When Noamin returns to the Land of Israel, only Ruth remains with her.
• The second chapter tells how Ruth collects the spikelets left on the field of Boaz after the harvest for his mother-in-law.
• The third chapter is about how Ruth, on the advice of her mother-in-law, reveals to Boaz that he is her relative.
• The fourth chapter is a story about the redemption of Boaz's rights to marry Ruth and the legacy of Elimelech from a closer relative. Ruth gives birth to Boaz a son, whose grandson David is. The genealogy of Boaz and David from Pharez, the son of Judah, is listed.

Bible Book Place

The book of Ruth is canonical and is placed in the Old Testament following the Book of Judges. Some, in particular Josephus, even placed the Book of Ruth in the Book of Judges. The text of the Book of Ruth contains Aramaism and later grammatical forms, which gave rise to some scholars to attribute its origin to a much later time; nevertheless, these aramaisms could have been the result of a later edition, so the version of Samuel’s authorship is still considered to be one of the main ones.

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In religious tradition

Judaism

The Book of Ruth is one of the books of the Scriptures, and is included in the Five Scrolls ((Heb. מגילות, Megilot)). The book of Ruth is read publicly in the synagogue in many communities at the morning prayer of the Shavuot festival. The book of Ruth is entirely included in the anthology from the books of the Written and Oral Torah (Tikun leil Shavuot), which is studied on the night of the Shavuot festival, when the giving of the Torah is celebrated near Mount Sinai. There are several reasons that connect the book of Ruth with the holiday of Shavuot:

• The accession of Ruth to the Jewish people (giyur) is similar to the Jewish acceptance of the Torah at Mount Sinai
• At the end of the book, Ruth mentions the birth of her great-grandson, King David, who, according to tradition, died in Shavuot.
• The main events of Ruth’s book are related to harvest time.

Christianity

Through David, according to the gospel, Ruth is also the foremother Son of david, Jesus, whose genealogy, among the few women, is her name (Matt. 1: 5).

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And Boaz said to a relative: Naomi, who returned from the fields of Moab, sells part of the field belonging to our brother Elimelech;

i decided to bring it to your ears and say: buy with those sitting here and with the elders of my people; if you want to redeem, redeem; and if you do not want to redeem, tell me, and I will know; for there is no one to redeem besides you; and for you I am. He said: I am redeeming.

Boaz said: when you buy a field from Naomi, you must also buy from Ruth Moabite, the wife of the deceased, and must marry her to restore the name of the deceased in his inheritance.

And that relative said: I cannot take it for myself, so as not to upset my inheritance; accept it you, for I cannot accept.

Previously, this was the custom of Israel for ransom and exchange to confirm a case: one took off his boot and gave it to another, and this was a testimony from Israel.

And that relative said to Boaz: Buy it for yourself. And he took off his boot.

And Boaz said to the elders and all the people: you are now witnesses to the fact that I am buying from Naomi all of Elimelech and all of Khileon and Makhlonovo;

i also take Ruth the Moabite, the wife of Makhlonov, as my wife, so as to leave the name of the deceased in his inheritance, and so that the name of the deceased does not disappear between his brothers and at the gates of his whereabouts: you are witnesses today.

And all the people that were at the gate, and the elders said, We are witnesses; may the Lord make a woman who enters your house like Rachel and Leah, who both built the house of Israel; acquire wealth in Ephrath, and may your name be glorified in Bethlehem;

and your house be like the house of Pharez, whom Tamar gave birth to Judah, from that seed that the Lord will give you from this young woman.

And Boaz took Ruth, and she became his wife. And he went in to her, and the Lord gave her pregnancy, and she bore a son.

And the women of Naomi said, Lord blessed, that He did not leave you now without an heir! And may his name be glorious in Israel!

He will be your joy and nourishment in your old age, for your daughter-in-law who loves you, who is better than seven sons for you, has given birth to him.

And Naomi took this child, and carried it in her arms, and was a nanny to him.

The neighbors named him and said: “Naomi had a son,” and named him: Ovid. He is the father of Jesse, the father of David.

And now the clan of the Phareses: Pharez gave birth to Esrom;

Yeshrom begat Aram; Aram gave birth to Aminadawa;

Aminadab begat Naasson; Naasson begat Salmon;

Salmon gave birth to Boaz; Boaz gave birth to Ovid;

Ovid gave birth to Jesse; Jesse begat David.

And Naomi, her mother-in-law, said to her: My daughter, do you not seek refuge for you to be well?

Behold, Boaz, with whose servants you were, our relative; behold, this night he blows barley on the threshing floor;

wash, anoint yourself, put on your elegant clothes and go to the threshing floor, but do not show yourself to him until you have finished eating and drinking;

when he goes to bed, find out the place where he lies; then you will come and open at his feet and lay down; he will tell you what to do.

Ruth said to her: I will do everything that you told me.

And she went to the threshing floor and did everything as her mother-in-law ordered her.

Boaz ate and got drunk, and amused his heart, and went and went to bed by the side of the hive. And she came quietly, opened at his feet and lay down.

At midnight he shuddered, raised himself, and, behold, a woman lay at his feet.

And Boaz said to her, Who are you? She said: I am Ruth, your servant, prostrate your wing on your servant, for you are a relative.

Boaz said: Blessed are you from the Lord, my daughter! this last good deed you did even better than before that you did not go looking for young people, neither poor nor rich;

so, my daughter, do not be afraid, I will do to you everything that you said; for at all the gates of my people they know that you are a virtuous woman;

although it is true that I am a relative, there is still a relative closer than me;

spend the night; tomorrow, if he accepts you, then well, let him accept; and if he does not want to accept you, then I will accept; the Lord lives! Sleep until morning.

And she slept at his feet until the morning and got up before they could recognize each other. And Boaz said: Let them not know that the woman came to the threshing floor.

And he said to her: hand over the outer garment that is on you, hold it. She held, and he measured her six measures of barley, and laid it upon her, and went into the city.

And Ruth came to her mother in law. She said to her: what, my daughter? She told her everything that the man had done to her.

And she said to her: he gave me these six measures of barley and told me: do not go to your mother-in-law with empty hands.

She said: wait, my daughter, until you know how the work will end; for that man will not remain at rest without doing business today.

Naomi had a relative for her husband, a very noble man from the Elimelekh tribe, his name was Boaz.

And Ruth the Moabite Naomi said: I will go to the field and I will pick up ears of corn in the footsteps of the one whom I will find favor. She said to her: go, my daughter.

She went, and came, and picked up the ears of corn in the field behind the reapers. And it happened that that part of the field belonged to Boaz, who was from the Elimelekh tribe.

And so Boaz came from Bethlehem and said to the reapers: The Lord is with you! They said to him: God bless you!

And Boaz said to his servant, who was appointed to the reapers: Whose young woman is this?

A servant assigned to the reapers answered and said: This young woman is a Moabite woman who came with Naomi from the fields of Moab;

let in your eyes be that field where they reap, and follow them; behold, I ordered my servants not to touch you; when you want to drink, go to the vessels and drink, from where my servants draw.

She fell on her face and bowed to the ground and said to him: How have I won mercy in your eyes, that you accept me, even though I am a foreigner?

Boaz answered and said to her: I have been told everything that you did for your mother-in-law upon the death of your husband, that you left your father and your mother and your homeland and came to a people that you did not know yesterday and the third day;

may the Lord give your reward for this work, and may there be a full reward from the Lord God of Israel, to whom you have come to calm down under His wings!

She said: May I be in mercy in your sight, my lord! You have comforted me and spoke after the heart of your slaves, while I am not worth any of your slaves.

And Boaz said to her, It is time for dinner; come here and eat bread and dip your piece of vinegar. And she sat near the reapers. He served her bread; she ate, ate, and was left.

And she got up to pick it up. Boaz gave an order to his servants, saying: let her pick up between the sheaves, and do not offend her;

and throw it away from the sheaves and leave it to her, let her pick it up, and do not scold her.

So she picked up on the field until evening and threshed the harvested, and came out near the barley efa.

Taking this, she went to the city, and her mother-in-law saw what she had dialed. And Ruth took out of her bosom and gave her what she had left, having eaten herself.

And her mother-in-law told her: where did you collect today and where did you work? Blessed be he who received you! Ruth! she announced her mother-in-law to whom she worked, and said: the name of the person to whom I worked today is Boaz.

And Naomi said to her daughter-in-law: he is blessed from the Lord for not depriving his mercy of either the living or the dead! And Naomi said to her: This man is close to us; he is from our relatives.

Ruth the Moabite woman said: he even said to me: Be with my maidservants until they finish my harvest.

And Naomi said to her daughter-in-law Ruth, well, my daughter, that you will walk with his maids, and they will not insult you in another field.

So she was with the servants of Boazov and picked up the ears, until the harvest of barley and the harvest of wheat ended, and lived with her mother-in-law.

In the days when the judges ruled, there was a famine on earth. And one man went from Bethlehem of Judea with his wife and his two sons to live in the fields of Moab.

The name of the man is Elimelech, the name of his wife Naomi, and the names of his two sons are Mahlon and Chileon; they were Ephrathites from Bethlehem of Judea. And they came to the fields of Moab and remained there.

And Elimelech the husband of Naomi died, and she remained with her two sons.

Bible Guide Azimov Isaac

Ruth

Naomi, having lost her husband and sons, decided to return to Bethlehem. Together with her both her daughter-in-laws went, but on the way Naomi began to persuade them to return to their home and marry again. Orfa agreed and said goodbye to her mother-in-law, and Ruth flatly refused:

Ruth 1: 16. But Ruth said: do not force me to leave you ... but wherever you go, I will go there, and where you will live, there I will live; your people will be my people, and your God my God ...

And they both went to Bethlehem.

In Bethlehem, Ruth met Boaz, a wealthy relative of Naomi, who liked her - despite being a stranger. He was grateful to her for the love and care she showed to Naomi. Naomi taught Ruth what to do, and Boaz married Ruth in accordance with the ancient Israeli law of the levirate.

The spouses had a son, and Naomi, who had lost her sons, was comforted. Her faithful sister-in-law, the Moabite Ruth, was now considered a full member of the Israeli community, and the Israelites praised her:

Ruth 4: 14–15. And the women of Naomi said ... thy daughter-in-law, who loves you ... is better for you than seven sons.

FROM  since then, for the whole people, Ruth remained one of the most attractive women of the Bible.

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During the time of the judges of Israel, a man named Elimelech lived in Bethlehem, which was located about six miles south of Jerusalem. His wife's name was Naomi (Naomi), and his two sons were Mahlon and Chileon. For several years in a row they were barren in Judea, and therefore, fleeing from hunger, Elimelech and his family went to live in the lands of Moab on the eastern shore of the Dead Sea. The family lived there for 10 years, when Elimelech died. His sons married Moabites, one of whom was called Orff, and the second - Ruth. Soon, both brothers also died, and three women - Ruth, Orfa, and Naomi - remained widows.

Ruth

Naomi (Naomi) found out that the productive years began again in the lands of Judea, and decided to return to her homeland. The woman invited the widows of her sons to go live with their mothers and find new husbands, but they wished to go with Naomi. By persuasion Naomi persuaded Orpha, but Ruth remained with her and went to Judea.

Women went around the Dead Sea, crossed the Jordan River and came to Bethlehem. Upon the arrival of Naomi, she changed her name to Mara. The fact is that Naomi means “pleasant,” and Mara means “bitter,” the woman’s life no longer advised the first epithet.

At that time there lived in Bethlehem a rich man named Boaz, who was a distant relative of Elimelech, the husband of Naomi. Boaz owned large fields. Then there was a custom in Judea - during the harvest there were always a few ears of corn for the poor, who could come and collect what was left. When Naomi and Ruth came to Bethlehem, it was time for the harvest of barley, because Ruth went to the fields of Boaz to collect some spikelets.

Boaz, seeing Ruth, asked one of his reapers: Whose young woman is this? Upon learning that this was a Moabite woman who had come with Naomi, he told Ruth:

... listen, my daughter, do not go to pick up on another field and do not cross from here, but be here with my maids;

let in your eyes be that field where they reap, and follow them; behold, I ordered my servants not to touch you; when you want to drink, go to the vessels and drink, from where my servants draw. ()

Then Ruth bowed to Boaz and thanked him for his kindness. She took these words to heart, because she did not expect such attention to herself - a stranger.

  Ruth in the fields of Boaz

Ruth came to the fields of Boaz until the time of harvesting was over. Soon, Ruth and Boaz began a relationship. Boaz married her. They had a son, Ovid. Obid had a son, Jesse, who became the father of David, king of Israel. So the Moabite Ruth, through her devotion, became the mother of the kings.

What does the biblical story of Ruth teach us?

Reading the story of Ruth, we can draw 5 main conclusions:

1) God takes care of all people, regardless of race, nationality or status.

Ruth was not Jewish, but Moab. Due to her personal qualities, she became the mother of kings. God loves her as much as any Jewish woman. God does not divide people; He loves everyone equally.

2) Men and women are equal before God.

God cares equally for men and women. We are all one in His eyes. While most religions elevate men, Christianity is the only monotheistic religion that honors men and women on the same level.

3) There are no insignificant people in the eyes of God.

Ruth became the mother of the Kings, although she was a Moabite and a poor widow. But God made her important in His plan. God's plan is for everyone. His power is often committed in our weakness

Therefore, I am complacent in weaknesses, in insults, in needs, in persecution, in oppression for Christ, for when I am weak, then I am strong. (Second Corinthians).

4) There are no minor events.

Ruth became the mother of the Kings due to a combination of circumstances: famine in Judea, family relocation, death of Naomi's sons, return to Bethlehem, meeting with Boaz. Perhaps our life is full of such events, the significance of which is not clear to us.

5) God is the Redeemer

Boaz can be seen as a type of Christ.

What lessons can we learn from the story of Ruth?

• Do not let the past determine your future.
• Be full of faith
• Be clean
• The good in you will not go unnoticed.