Ruth 3 Cross References - CLV

¹ Naomi, her husband's mother, said to her, My daughter, behold, I should seek a resting place for you that it may be well with you. ² Now behold, there is our near relative Boaz with whose maidens you have been. Behold, he will be winnowing barley on the threshing site tonight. ³ So bathe and use lotion, put your raiment on you, and go down to the threshing site. But do not make yourself known to the man until he has finished eating and drinking. ⁴ When it occurs that he lies down, then get to know the place where he lies. Later you must go there, expose his feet and lie down. As for him, he shall tell you what you should do. ⁵ Ruth replied to her, All that you say I shall do. ⁶ So she went down to the threshing site and did according to all that her husband's mother had instructed her. ⁷ Boaz ate and drank, and his heart felt good when he came to lie down at the end of the grain-pile. Later she went there with stealth, exposed his feet and lay down. ⁸ It came about at midnight that the man began to tremble and bent forward; and behold, there was a woman lying at his feet. ⁹ He asked, Who are you? And she replied, I am Ruth, your maidservant. Spread the hem of your garment over your maidservant, since you are a kinsman redeemer. ¹⁰ At that he said, Blessed be you by Yahweh, my daughter! You have shown your latter kindness to be better than the first, in not going at all after the men in their prime, whether poor or rich. ¹¹ And now, my daughter, do not fear. All that you ask I shall do for you; for all the gate of my people is knowing that you are an able woman. ¹² But now, though it is true that I am a kinsman redeemer, there is however a kinsman redeemer nearer than I. ¹³ Lodge here tonight. Then it will come to pass in the morning:if he redeems you, good; let him redeem. Yet if he is not inclined to redeem you, I myself will redeem you, as Yahweh lives! Lie down until the morning. ¹⁴ So she lay at his feet until the morning; yet she arose ere a man could recognize his associate, for Boaz thought, It must not be known that the woman came to the threshing site. ¹⁵ He said to her, Get the shawl that is on you, and hold it out. So she held it while he measured out six measures of barley and set it on her back. Then she entered the city. ¹⁶ She came to her husband's mother who asked, How did you fare, my daughter? So she told her all that the man had done for her;" ¹⁷ and she added, These six measures of barley gave he to me, saying, You must not come back empty-handed to your husband's mother. ¹⁸ She replied, Stay here, my daughter, until you come to know how the matter turns out. For the man shall not be quiet unless he concludes the matter today.

¹⁴ For, remember me should you when it is well with you, then, pray, deal withal in kindness, and mention me to Pharaoh, and bring me forth from this house,

³⁴ And lifting up is he helpings, from before him, for them, and much more is Benjamin's helping than all their helpings by five handfuls. And drinking are they with him and are gratified.

¹² Glorify your father and your mother, that your days may be prolonged on the ground which Yahweh your Elohim is giving to you.

⁴⁰ Hence you will observe His statutes and His instructions which I am enjoining on you today, that it may be well with you and your sons after you, and that you may prolong your days on the ground that Yahweh your Elohim is giving to you, all the days.

⁵ In case brothers dwell together, and one of them dies, and he has no son, the wife of the dead one shall not come to the outside, to an alien man. Her brother-in-law shall come to her, and he will take her to himself as his wife and perform the levirate for her.

⁵ In case brothers dwell together, and one of them dies, and he has no son, the wife of the dead one shall not come to the outside, to an alien man. Her brother-in-law shall come to her, and he will take her to himself as his wife and perform the levirate for her. ⁶ Then it will come to be:the firstborn whom she bears shall carry on the name of his father's dead brother so that his name may not be wiped out from Israel.

⁶ Then it will come to be:the firstborn whom she bears shall carry on the name of his father's dead brother so that his name may not be wiped out from Israel. ⁷ But should the man not be inclined to take his sister-in-law, then his sister-in-law will go up to the elders at the gate and say:My brother-in-law refuses to raise up a name for his brother in Israel; he is not willing to perform the levirate for me.

⁷ But should the man not be inclined to take his sister-in-law, then his sister-in-law will go up to the elders at the gate and say:My brother-in-law refuses to raise up a name for his brother in Israel; he is not willing to perform the levirate for me. ⁸ Then the elders of his city will call to him and speak to him. But if he persists and says:I am not inclined to take her,

⁸ Then the elders of his city will call to him and speak to him. But if he persists and says:I am not inclined to take her, ⁹ then his sister-in-law will come close to him before the eyes of the elders, pull his sandal off his foot, spit in his face and answer and say:Thus shall be done to the man who will not build up his brother's house.

⁹ then his sister-in-law will come close to him before the eyes of the elders, pull his sandal off his foot, spit in his face and answer and say:Thus shall be done to the man who will not build up his brother's house. ¹⁰ And his name will be called in Israel, House of the Pulled-off Sandal.

¹⁹ And he said, `My brethren--sons of my mother--they; Yahweh lives, if you had kept them alive--I had not slain you..

²⁵ And it comes to pass, when their heart [is] glad, that they say, `Call for Samson, and he does play before us;' and they call for Samson out of the prison-house, and he plays before them, and they cause him to stand between the pillars.

⁶ And they sit and eat both of them together, and drink, and the father of the young woman said unto the man, `Be willing, I pray you, and lodge all night, and let your heart be glad..

⁹ And the man rises to go, he and his concubine, and his young man, and his father-in-law, father of the young woman, said to him, `Lo, I pray you, the day has fallen toward evening, lodge all night, I pray you; lo, the declining of the day! lodge here, and let your heart be glad--and you have risen early to-morrow for your journey, and you have gone to your tent..

²² They are making their heart glad, and lo, men of the city, men--sons of worthlessness--have gone round about the house, beating on the door, and they speak unto the old man, the master of the house, saying, `Bring out the man who has come unto your house, and we know him..

⁸ Yet Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, Go, turn back, each of you to her mother's house. May Yahweh deal kindly with you, just as you have dealt with the dead and with me. ⁹ May Yahweh grant you that each may find a resting-place in the house of her husband. When she kissed them, they lifted up their voice and wept.

¹ Naomi had a near relative of her husband, a man who was a master of valor, of the family of Elimelech, and his name was Boaz.

⁴ And behold, Boaz was coming from Bethlehem and said to the reapers, Yahweh be with you! They replied to him, Yahweh bless you!"

⁸ Boaz said to Ruth, Behold, hearken, my daughter. You must not go to glean in another field; also do not cross over from this one. And thus shall you follow hard behind my maidens.

¹⁰ Now she fell on her face, bowed herself down to the earth and said to him, For what reason have I found favor in your eyes to recognize me, since I am a foreigner? ¹¹ Boaz answered and said to her, It was told, yea told to me, all that you have done for your husband's mother since the death of your husband, how you forsook your father and your mother and the country of your birth and went to a people you had not known heretofore. ¹² May Yahweh repay your deeds. May your reward be equitable from Yahweh the Elohim of Israel, under Whose wings you have come to take refuge. ¹³ She replied, May I always find favor in your eyes, my lord, for you have comforted me, and you have spoken to the heart of your maidservant. As for me, I am not even like one of your maidservants.

²⁰ Naomi replied to her daughter-in-law, Blessed be he by Yahweh, Who has not forsaken His benignity toward the living and the dead. And Naomi explained to her, This man is a near relative of ours; he is one of our kinsmen redeemers.

²⁰ Naomi replied to her daughter-in-law, Blessed be he by Yahweh, Who has not forsaken His benignity toward the living and the dead. And Naomi explained to her, This man is a near relative of ours; he is one of our kinsmen redeemers. ²¹ Then Ruth the Moabite said to her husband's mother, He even told me, You shall follow hard behind the young workers who are mine until they have finished all the harvest that I have. ²² Naomi replied to Ruth, her daughter-in-law, It is best, my daughter, that you go forth with his maidens, so that the lads in another field may not touch on you. ²³ So she followed hard behind the maidens of Boaz, and gleaned until the barley harvest and the wheat harvest were finished. And she dwelt with her husband's mother.

¹² But now, though it is true that I am a kinsman redeemer, there is however a kinsman redeemer nearer than I.

¹ Boaz had gone up to the gate and sat down there, when the kinsman redeemer was passing by of whom Boaz had spoken. Boaz said to him, Do turn in, do sit down here, So-and-so. And he turned in and sat down.

⁵ Then Boaz continued, On the day you acquire the field from the hand of Naomi, you acquire also Ruth, the Moabite wife of the dead, in order to raise up the name of the dead on his allotment.

⁴¹ And she rises and bows herself--face to the earth--and said, `Lo, your handmaid [is] for a maid-servant to wash the feet of the servants of my lord..

²⁸ And Absalom commands his young men, saying, `See, I pray you, when the heart of Amnon [is] glad with wine, and I have said unto you, Smite Amnon, that you have put him to death; fear not; is it not because I have commanded you? be strong, yea, become sons of valor..

² and Joab sends to Tekoah, and takes thence a wise woman, and said unto her, `Feign yourself a mourner, I pray you, and put on, I pray you, garments of mourning, and anoint not yourself with oil, and you have been as a woman these many days mourning for the dead,

⁷ And Jezebel his wife said unto him, `You now do execute rule over Israel! rise, eat bread, and let your heart be glad, --I do give to you the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite..

¹⁰ On the seventh day, when the king's heart was cheerful with wine, he ordered Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, Abagtha, Zethar and Carcas (the seven eunuchs ministering in the presence of king Xerxes),

¹ It was on the third day that Esther put on royal clothing and took her stand in the inner court of the king's house, over against the king's house, while the king was sitting on his royal throne in the royal house, over against the portal of the house.

³ Trust in Yahweh, and do good; Tabernacle in the land, and graze in faithfulness." ⁴ Find pleasure in Yahweh, And He shall give you the requests of your heart." ⁵ Hand over your way to Yahweh; Trust Him, and He shall do it."

¹⁵ And wine that makes the heart of a mortal rejoice, To make the face lustrous with oil, And bread that braces the heart of mortal man."

² The fruit of the labor of your palms shall you surely eat; Happy are you, and it will be well for you."

⁸ Hear, my son, the admonition of your father, And do not abandon the law of your mother."

⁴ A wife of ability is her spouse's crown, Yet she who brings shame is as rottenness in his bones."

¹⁰ A wife of ability, who can find? Far more than rubies is her worth."

²⁹ Many daughters do ably, Yet you ascend over them all." ³⁰ Grace may be false and loveliness vain, But the woman fearful of Yahweh, she shall be praised." ³¹ Give honor to her for the fruit of her hands, And let them praise her in the gateways for her deeds."

²⁴ There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink And cause his soul to see good from his toil; This too I see that it is from the hand of Elohim.

¹² I know that there is no good for them Save to rejoice and to achieve good in one's life; ¹³ And, moreover, anyone of humanity, That he should eat and drink and see good from all his toil, It is a gift of Elohim."

¹ A good name is better than the best attar, And the day of one's death than the day of his birth."

¹⁵ So I lauded rejoicing, Since there is no good for a man under the sun Save to eat and to drink and to rejoice. And it shall lodge with him in his toil through the days of his life, Which the One, Elohim, gives to him under the sun."

⁷ Go, eat your bread with rejoicing, and drink your wine with good heart, For already the One, Elohim, has approved of your works." ⁸ In every season, let your garments be white, And oil on your head, let in not be lacking."

¹⁹ The making of bread is for mirth, And wine gives rejoicing to life, While silver answers for everything."

¹⁶ Wherefore, thus says my Lord Yahweh, "Behold Me laying in Zion a foundation stone, a choice stone, a corner of a precious well-founded foundation. The believer on it shall not be put to shame."

⁷ And Egypt in vain and for naught is helping you. Wherefore I call as to this, "Their audacity shall cease!"

⁸ Yet the patron counsels willingness, and he, in the willingness, is confirmed."

² And you have sworn--Yahweh lives, In truth, in judgment, and in righteousness, And blessed themselves in Him have nations, And in Him they boast themselves."

¹⁵ Do you reign, because you are fretting yourself in cedar? Your father--did he not eat and drink? Yea, he did judgment and righteousness, Then [it is] well with him." ¹⁶ He decided the cause of the poor and needy, Then [it is] well--is it not to know Me? An affirmation of Yahweh."

⁸ And I pass over by you, and I see you, And lo, your time [is] a time of loves, And I spread My skirt over you, And I cover your nakedness, And I swear to you, and come in to a covenant with you, An affirmation of the Lord Yahweh, And you do become Mine."

¹⁷ Now you, when fasting, rub your head with oil and wash your face,

¹² All, then, whatever you should be wanting that men should be doing to you, thus you, also, be doing to them, for this is the law and the prophets."

²⁴ saying, "Teacher, Moses said, If anyone should die, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife and shall raise up seed to his brother." ²⁵ Now there were with us seven brothers, and the first, marrying, deceases. And having no seed, he leaves his wife to his brother." ²⁶ Likewise the second also, and the third, till the seven." ²⁷ Now, subsequently to all, the woman died."

¹¹ For everyone exalting himself shall be humbled, and humbling himself shall be exalted."

⁵ His mother is saying to the servants, "Anything which He should be saying to you, do."

¹⁴ You are My friends, if you should be doing whatever I am directing you."

¹⁷ To no one render evil for evil, making ideal provision in the sight of all men,

¹⁶ Let not, then, your good be calumniated,

³⁶ Now if anyone is inferring it to be indecent for his virgin, if she should be over her meridian, and thus it ought to occur, what he will, let him do. He is not sinning. Let them marry."

³¹ Then, whether you are eating or drinking, or anything you are doing, do all for the glory of God." ³² And become not a stumbling block to Jews as well as to Greeks and to the ecclesia of God,

⁴ Love is patient, is kind. Love is not jealous. Love is not bragging, is not puffed up, ⁵ is not indecent, is not self-seeking, is not incensed, is not taking account of evil,

²³ Now I am invoking God as a witness on my soul, that to spare you, I came no longer to Corinth."

²¹ for we are providing the ideal, not only in the sight of the Lord, but in the sight of men also."

¹⁰ Consequently, then, as we have occasion, we are working for the good of all, yet specially for the family of faith."

¹⁸ And be not drunk with wine, in which is profligacy, but be filled full with spirit,

¹ Children, be obeying your parents, in the Lord, for this is just."

²⁰ Children, obey your parents in all things, for this is well pleasing in the Lord."

⁶ No one is to be circumventing and overreaching his brother in the matter, because the Lord is the Avenger of all these, according as we said to you before also, and certify,

²² From everything wicked to the perception, abstain."

⁹ Similarly, women also are to be adorning themselves in raiment, decorously, with modesty and sanity, not with braids and gold, or pearls or costly vesture, ¹⁰ but (what is becoming to women professing a reverence for God) with good works.

⁸ Now if anyone is not providing for his own, and especially his family, he has disowned the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever."

¹⁴ I am intending, then, that younger widows are to be marrying, bearing children, managing the household, giving an opposer nothing as an incentive favoring reviling,

¹¹ For both He Who is hallowing and those who are being hallowed are all of One, for which cause He is not ashamed to be calling them brethren, ¹² saying, I shall be reporting Thy name to My brethren, In the midst of the ecclesia shall I be singing hymns to Thee." ¹³ And again, I shall have confidence in Him. And again, Lo! I and the little children who are given Me by God!" ¹⁴ Since, then, the little children have participated in blood and flesh, He also was very nigh by partaking of the same, that, through death, He should be discarding him who has the might of death, that is, the Adversary,

¹⁶ For men are swearing by a greater, and to them an oath for confirmation is an end of all contradiction,

¹² having your behavior among the nations ideal, that in that in which they are speaking against you as of evildoers, by being spectators of ideal acts they should be glorifying God in the day of visitation."