Rut 2

NOVA VULGATA	NEW JERUSALEM
1 Erat autem Noemi consangui neus viri sui homo potens et for tis nomine Booz.	1 Naomi had a kinsman on her husband's side, wel -to-do and of Elimelech's clan. His name was Boaz.
2 Dixitque Ruth Moabitis ad socrum suam: “ Si permittis, vadam in agrum et colligam spicas, quae fugerint manus metentium, ubicumque clementis in me patris familias repperero gratiam”. Cui illa respondit: “ Vade, filia mea ”.	2 Ruth the Moabitess said to Naomi, 'Let me go into the fields and glean ears of corn in the footsteps ofsome man who will look on me with favour.' She replied, 'Go, daughter.'
3 Abiit itaque et colligebat spicas post terga metentium. Accidit autem ut ager ille haberet dominum nomine Booz, qui erat de cognatione Elimelech.	3 So she set out and went to glean in the fields behind the reapers. Chance led her to a plot of landbelonging to Boaz of Elimelech's clan.
4 Et ecce ipse veniebat de Bethlehem dixitque messoribus: “Dominus vobiscum”. Qui responderunt ei: “ Benedicat tibi Dominus ”.	4 Boaz, as it happened, had just come from Bethlehem. 'Yahweh be with you!' he said to the reapers.'Yahweh bless you!' they replied.
5 Dixitque Booz iuveni, qui messoribus praeerat: “ Cuius est haec puella? ”.	5 Boaz said to a servant of his who was in charge of the reapers, 'To whom does this young womanbelong?'
6 Qui respondit: “ Haec est Moabitis, quae venit cum Noemi de regione Moabitide	6 And the servant in charge of the reapers replied, 'The girl is the Moabitess, the one who came back withNaomi from the Plains of Moab.
7 et rogavit, ut spicas colligeret remanentes sequens messorum vestigia; et de mane usque nunc stat in agro et nunc tantum ad momentum requievit ”.	7 She said, "Please let me glean and pick up what fal s from the sheaves behind the reapers." Thus shecame, and here she stayed, with hardly a rest from morning until now.'
8 Et ait Booz ad Ruth: “ Audi, filia: ne vadas ad colligendum in alterum agrum nec recedas ab hoc loco, sed iungere puellis meis.	8 Boaz said to Ruth, 'Listen to me, daughter. You must not go gleaning in any other field. You must not goaway from here. Stay close to my work-women.
9 Vide et, ubi messuerint, sequere eas; mandavi enim pueris, ut nemo tibi molestus sit; sed, si sitieris, vade ad sarcinulas et bibe de aqua, quam pueri hauserint ”.	9 Keep your eyes on whatever part of the field they are reaping and fol ow behind. I have forbidden mymen to molest you. And if you are thirsty, go to the pitchers and drink what the servants have drawn.'
10 Quae cadens in faciem suam et adorans super terram dixit ad eum: “ Unde mihi hoc, ut invenirem gratiam ante oculos tuos, et nosse me dignareris peregrinam mulierem? ”.	10 Ruth fel on her face, prostrated herself and said, 'How have I attracted your favour, for you to noticeme, who am only a foreigner?'
11 Cui ille respondit: “ Nuntiata sunt mihi omnia, quae feceris socrui tuae post mortem viri tui et quod dereliqueris parentes tuos et terram, in qua nata es, et veneris ad populum, quem ante nesciebas.	11 Boaz replied, 'I have been told al about the way you have behaved to your mother-in-law since yourhusband's death, and how you left your own father and mother and the land where you were born to come to apeople of whom you previously knew nothing.
12 Reddat tibi Dominus pro opere tuo, et plenam mercedem recipias a Domino, Deo Israel, ad quem venisti et sub cuius confugisti alas ”.	12 May Yahweh repay you for what you have done, and may you be richly rewarded by Yahweh, the Godof Israel, under whose wings you have come for refuge!'
13 Quae ait: “ Inveniam gratiam ante oculos tuos, domine mi, qui consolatus es me et locutus es ad cor ancillae tuae, quae non sum similis unius puellarum tuarum ”.	13 She said, 'My lord, I hope you wil always look on me with favour! You have comforted and encouragedme, though I am not even the equal of one of your work-women.'
14 Dixitque ad eam Booz hora vescendi: “Veni huc et comede panem et intinge buccellam tuam in aceto ”. Sedit itaque ad messorum latus, et porrexit ei polentam, comeditque et saturata est et tulit reliquias.	14 When it was time to eat, Boaz said to her, 'Come and eat some of this bread and dip your piece in thevinegar.' Ruth sat down beside the reapers and Boaz made a heap of roasted grain for her; she ate til herhunger was satisfied, and she had some left over.
15 Atque inde surrexit, ut spicas ex more colligeret. Praecepit autem Booz pueris suis dicens: “Etiam inter manipulos colligat, ne prohibeatis eam;	15 When she had got up to glean, Boaz gave orders to his work-people, 'Let her glean among thesheaves themselves. Do not molest her.
16 quin et de fasciculis spicas proicite et remanere permittite, ut colligat, et colligentem nemo corripiat ”.	16 And be sure you pull a few ears of corn out of the bundles and drop them. Let her glean them, and donot scold her.'
17 Collegit ergo in agro usque ad vesperam; et, quae collegerat virga excutiens, invenit hordei quasi ephi mensuram (id est tres modios).	17 So she gleaned in the field till evening. Then she beat out what she had gleaned and it came to abouta bushel of barley.
18 Quos portans reversa est in civitatem et ostendit socrui suae, quae collegerat; insuper protulit et dedit ei de reliquiis cibi sui, quo saturata fuerat.	18 Taking it with her, she went back to the town. Her mother-in-law saw what she had gleaned. Ruth alsotook out what she had kept after eating al she wanted, and gave that to her.
19 Dixitque ei socrus: “ Ubi hodie collegisti et ubi fecisti opus? Sit benedictus, qui misertus est tui! ”. Indicavitque ei apud quem esset operata et dixit: “ Nomen viri est Booz ”.	19 Her mother-in-law said, 'Where have you been gleaning today? Where have you been working?Blessed be the man who took notice of you!' Ruth told her mother-in-law in whose field she had been working.'The name of the man with whom I have been working today', she said, 'is Boaz.'
20 Cui respondit Noemi: “ Benedictus sit a Domino, quia non subtraxit gratiam suam nec vivis nec mortuis! ”. Rursumque ait: “ Propinquus noster est homo ex eis, qui pro nobis ius redemptionis habent ”.	20 Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, 'May he be blessed by Yahweh who does not withhold his faithfullove from living or dead! This man', Naomi added, 'is a close relation of ours. He is one of those who have theright of redemption over us.'
21 Et Ruth: “ Hoc quoque, inquit, praecepit mihi, ut tamdiu messoribus eius iungerer, donec omnes segetes meterentur ”.	21 Ruth the Moabitess said to her mother-in-law, 'He also said, "Stay with my work-people until they havefinished my whole harvest." '
22 Cui dixit socrus: “ Melius est, filia mea, ut cum puellis eius exeas ad metendum, ne in alieno agro quispiam tibi molestus sit ”.	22 Naomi said to Ruth, her daughter-in-law, 'It is better for you, daughter, to go with his work-women thanto go to some other field where you might be il -treated.'
23 Iuncta est itaque puellis Booz usque ad finem messis hordei et tritici; et mansit cum socru sua.	23 So she stayed with Boaz's work-women, and gleaned until the barley and wheat harvests werefinished. And she went on living with her mother-in-law.