¹Imela je pa Naomi sorodnika po možu svojem, vrlega in bogatega moža, iz rodovine Elimelekove, in ime mu je bilo Boaz.

¹And Naomi hath an acquaintance of her husband`s, a man mighty in wealth, of the family of Elimelech, and his name [is] Boaz.

²In Ruta Moabka reče Naomi: Dovoli, naj grem na polje in pobiram klasje za njim, v čigar očeh najdem milost. Ona ji veli: Pojdi, moja hči!

²And Ruth the Moabitess saith unto Naomi, `Let me go, I pray thee, into the field, and I gather among the ears of corn after him in whose eyes I find grace;` and she saith to her, `Go, my daughter.`

³Nato gre in pride in pobira za ženjci na polju. In prigodi se ji, da zaide na njivo Boazovo, ki je bil iz Elimelekove rodovine.

³And she goeth and cometh and gathereth in a field after the reapers, and her chance happeneth — the portion of the field is Boaz`s who [is] of the family of Elimelech.

⁴In glej, Boaz pride iz Betlehema in reče ženjcem: GOSPOD bodi z vami! In oni mu odzdravijo: Blagoslovi te GOSPOD!

⁴And lo, Boaz hath come from Beth-Lehem, and saith to the reapers, `Jehovah [is] with you;` and they say to him, `Jehovah doth bless thee.`

⁵Nato vpraša Boaz hlapca svojega, ki je bil postavljen čez ženjce: Čigava je ta mladenka?

⁵And Boaz saith to his young man who is set over the reapers, `Whose [is] this young person?`

⁶Hlapec, ki je bil postavljen nad ženjci, odgovori: Mladenka je Moabka, ki je prišla z Naomo nazaj z Moabske poljane.

⁶And the young man who is set over the reapers answereth and saith, `A young woman — Moabitess — she [is], who came back with Naomi from the fields of Moab,

⁷In mi je dejala: Naj pobiram, prosim, in spravljam med snopjem, za ženjci; in je prišla in vztrajala od jutra do sedaj, samo da je prav malo doma posedela.

⁷and she saith, Let me glean, I pray thee — and I have gathered among the sheaves after the reapers; and she cometh and remaineth since the morning and till now; she sat in the house a little.

⁸Tedaj reče Boaz Ruti: Slišiš li, hči moja? Ne pojdi na drugo njivo pobirat, tudi ne hodi odtod, ampak pridruži se deklam mojim.

⁸And Boaz saith unto Ruth, `Hast thou not heard, my daughter? go not to glean in another field, and also, pass not over from this, and thus thou dost cleave to my young women:

⁹Glej, na kateri njivi žanjejo, in pojdi tja za njimi! Ali nisem zapovedal mladeničem, naj se te nihče ne dotakne? In kadar boš žejna, pojdi k posodam in pij, kar moji hlapci zajemajo!

⁹thine eyes [are] on the field which they reap, and thou hast gone after them; have not I charged the young men not to touch thee? when thou art athirst then thou hast gone unto the vessels, and hast drunk from that which the young men draw.`

¹⁰Tedaj pade ona na obličje svoje in se prikloni do tal in mu reče: S čim sem našla milost pred očmi tvojimi, da se prijazno oziraš po meni, ki sem tujka?

¹⁰And she falleth on her face, and boweth herself to the earth, and saith unto him, `Wherefore have I found grace in thine eyes, to discern me, and I a stranger?`

¹¹Boaz odgovori in ji reče: Natanko mi je bilo povedano vse, kar si storila tašči svoji, odkar ti je umrl mož, in kako si zapustila svojega očeta in mater svojo in zemljo, ki si v njej rojena, in si šla k ljudstvu, ki ga poprej nisi nič poznala.

¹¹And Boaz answereth and saith to her, `It hath thoroughly been declared to me all that thou hast done with thy mother-in-law, after the death of thy husband, and thou dost leave thy father, and thy mother, and the land of thy birth, and dost come in unto a people which thou hast not known heretofore.

¹²GOSPOD ti poplačaj delo tvoje, in popolno povračilo ti pridi od GOSPODA, Izraelovega Boga, ki si prišla k njemu, da imaš pribežališče pod perutmi njegovimi!

¹²Jehovah doth recompense thy work, and thy reward is complete from Jehovah, God of Israel, under whose wings thou hast come to take refuge.`

¹³In ona reče: Gospod moj, naj najdem milost v očeh tvojih; zakaj ti si me potolažil in na srce govoril dekli svoji, čeprav nisem kakor ena dekel tvojih.

¹³And she saith, `Let me find grace in thine eyes, my lord, because thou hast comforted me, and because thou hast spoken unto the heart of thy maid-servant, and I — I am not as one of thy maid-servants.`

¹⁴In ko je bil čas jedi, ji veli Boaz: Pridi sem in jej kruh in omakaj grižljaj svoj v kisu. In ona sede poleg ženjcev. In poda ji opraženega zrnja, in jedla je in se nasitila in ostanke shranila.

¹⁴And Boaz saith to her, `At meal-time come nigh hither, and thou hast eaten of the bread, and dipped thy morsel in the vinegar.` And she sitteth at the side of the reapers, and he reacheth to her roasted corn, and she eateth, and is satisfied, and leaveth.

¹⁵In ko vstane, da zopet pobira, ukaže Boaz hlapcem svojim, rekoč: Dajte, da pobira tudi med snopjem, in je nikar ne sramotite!

¹⁵And she riseth to glean, and Boaz chargeth his young men, saying, `Even between the sheaves she doth glean, and ye do not cause her to blush;

¹⁶Tudi nalašč potegujte zanjo klasje iz snopkov in pustite na tleh, da pobira, in nihče je zato ne svari.

¹⁶and also ye do surely cast to her of the handfuls — and have left, and she hath gleaned, and ye do not push against her.`

¹⁷Tako je pobirala na polju do večera; in iztolkla je, kar je nabrala, in bilo je okoli efe ječmena.

¹⁷And she gleaneth in the field till the evening, and beateth out that which she hath gleaned, and it is about an ephah of barley;

¹⁸In vzame to in gre v mesto; in njena tašča je videla, koliko je nabrala; in izname in ji poda, kar ji je preostalo, ko se je bila nasitila.

¹⁸and she taketh [it] up, and goeth into the city, and her mother-in-law seeth that which she hath gleaned, and she bringeth out and giveth to her that which she left from her satiety.

¹⁹Nato ji reče tašča njena: Kod si danes pobirala in kje si delala? Blagoslovljen bodi, ki se je prijazno ozrl nate! In pove tašči svoji, pri kom je delala, in reče: Ime možu, pri katerem sem danes delala, je Boaz.

¹⁹And her mother-in-law saith to her, `Where hast thou gleaned to-day? and where hast thou wrought? may he who is discerning thee be blessed.` And she declareth to her mother-in-law with whom she hath wrought, and saith, `The name of the man with whom I have wrought to-day [is] Boaz.`

²⁰In Naomi reče snahi svoji: Blagoslovljen bodi od GOSPODA, čigar milost ne zapusti ne živih, ne mrtvih! Še ji pove Naomi: Ta mož je bližji sorodnik najin, eden teh, ki jim gre pravica odkupiti naju.

²⁰And Naomi saith to her daughter-in-law, `Blessed [is] he of Jehovah who hath not forsaken His kindness with the living and with the dead;` and Naomi saith to her, `The man is a relation of ours; he [is] of our redeemers.`

²¹In Ruta Moabka reče: Tudi to mi je velel: Vztrajaj pri hlapcih mojih, dokler ne požanjejo vsega, kar je moje.

²¹And Ruth the Moabitess saith, `Also he surely said unto me, Near the young people whom I have thou dost cleave till they have completed the whole of the harvest which I have.`

²²Naomi pa reče snahi svoji Ruti: Dobro je, hči moja, da hodiš ven z deklami njegovimi, da te ne žalijo na kateri drugi njivi.Tako se je družila, pobirajoč klasje, Boazovim deklam, dokler ni minila ječmenova in pšenična žetev, in je prebivala s taščo svojo.

²²And Naomi saith unto Ruth her daughter-in-law, `Good, my daughter, that thou goest out with his young women, and they come not against thee in another field.`

²³Tako se je družila, pobirajoč klasje, Boazovim deklam, dokler ni minila ječmenova in pšenična žetev, in je prebivala s taščo svojo.

²³And she cleaveth to the young women of Boaz to glean, till the completion of the barley-harvest, and of the wheat-harvest, and she dwelleth with her mother-in-law.