English Bible Presentation Sharing - Ruth Book, chapter 2, verse 1 in Lxxen Version

Ruth 2 : 1 (LXXEN)

And Noemin had a friend an acquaintance of her husband, and the man was a mighty man of the kindred of Elimelech, and his name was Booz.

Ruth 2 : 2 (LXXEN)

And Ruth the Moabitess said to Noemin, Let me go now to the field, and I will glean among the ears behind the man *Gr. in whosesoever eyes I shall find favour with whomsoever I shall find favour: and she said to her, Go, daughter.

Ruth 2 : 3 (LXXEN)

And she went; and came and gleaned in the field behind the reapers; and she happened by chance to come on a portion of the land of Booz, of the kindred of Elimelech.

Ruth 2 : 4 (LXXEN)

And, behold, Booz came from Bethleem, and said to the reapers, The Lord be with you: and they said to him, The Lord bless thee.

Ruth 2 : 5 (LXXEN)

And Booz said to his servant who was set over the reapers, Whose is this damsel?

Ruth 2 : 6 (LXXEN)

And his servant who was set over the reapers answered and said, It is the Moabitish damsel who returned with Noemin out of the land of Moab.

Ruth 2 : 7 (LXXEN)

And she said, I pray you, let me glean and gather among the *Gr. handfuls sheaves after the reapers: and she came and stood from morning till evening, and rested not even a little in the field.

Ruth 2 : 8 (LXXEN)

And Booz said to Ruth, Hast thou not heard, my daughter? go not to glean in another field; and depart not thou hence, join thyself here with my damsels.

Ruth 2 : 9 (LXXEN)

Let thine eyes be on the field where my men shall reap, and thou shalt go after them: behold, I have charged the young men not to touch thee: and when you shalt thirst, then thou shalt go to the vessels, and drink of that which the young men shall have drawn.

Ruth 2 : 10 (LXXEN)

And she fell upon her face, and did reverence to the ground, and said to him, How is it that I have found grace in thine eyes, that thou shouldest take notice of me, whereas I am a stranger?

Ruth 2 : 11 (LXXEN)

And Booz answered and said to her, It has fully been told me how thou hast dealt with thy mother-in-law after the death of thy husband; and how thou didst leave thy father and thy mother, and the land of thy birth, and camest to a people whom thou knewest not *Gr. yesterday and the third day before.

Ruth 2 : 12 (LXXEN)

The Lord recompense thy work; may a full reward be given thee of the Lord God of Israel, to whom thou hast come to trust under his wings.

Ruth 2 : 13 (LXXEN)

And she said, Let me find grace in thy sight, my lord, because thou hast comforted me, and because thou hast spoken *Gr. to the heart of; Hebraism kindly to thy handmaid, and behold, I shall be as one of thy servants.

Ruth 2 : 14 (LXXEN)

And Booz said to her, Now it is time to eat; come hither, and thou shalt eat of the bread, and thou shalt dip thy morsel in the vinegar: and Ruth sat by the side of the reapers: and Booz *Lit. heaped handed her meal, and she ate, and was satisfied, and left.

Ruth 2 : 15 (LXXEN)

And she rose up to glean; and Booz charged his young men, saying, Let her even glean among the sheaves, and *Gr. shame her not reproach her not.

Ruth 2 : 16 (LXXEN)

And do ye by all means carry it for her, and ye shall surely let fall for her some of that which is heaped up; and let her eat, and glean, and rebuke her not.

Ruth 2 : 17 (LXXEN)

So she gleaned in the field till evening, and beat out that she had gleaned, and it was about an ephah of barley.

Ruth 2 : 18 (LXXEN)

And she took it up, and went into the city: and her mother-in-law saw what she had gleaned, and Ruth brought forth and gave to her the food which she had left from what she had been satisfied with.

Ruth 2 : 19 (LXXEN)

And her mother-in-law said to her, Where hast thou gleaned to-day, and where hast thou wrought? blessed be he that took notice of thee. And Ruth told her mother-in-law where she had wrought, and said, The name of the man with whom I wrought to-day is Booz.

Ruth 2 : 20 (LXXEN)

And Noemin said to her daughter-in-law, Blessed is he of the Lord, because he has not failed in his mercy with the living and with the dead: and Noemin said to her, The man is near akin to us, he is one of our relations.

Ruth 2 : 21 (LXXEN)

And Ruth said to her mother-in-law, Yea, he said also to me, Keep close to my damsels, until the men shall have finished all my reaping.

Ruth 2 : 22 (LXXEN)

And Noemin said to Ruth her daughter-in-law, It is well, daughter, that thou wentest out with his damsels; thus they shall not meet thee in another field.

Ruth 2 : 23 (LXXEN)

And Ruth joined herself to the damsels of Booz to glean until they had finished the barley-harvest and the wheat-harvest.