¹Naomi had a kinsman of her husband’s, a mighty man of wealth, of the family of Elimelech, and his name was Boaz.

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

²Ruth the Moabitess said to Naomi, “Let me now go to the field, and glean among the ears of grain after him in whose sight I shall find favor.” She said to her, “Go, my daughter.”

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!

³She went, and came and gleaned in the field after the reapers: and she happened to come to the portion of the field belonging to Boaz, who was of the family of Elimelech.

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.

⁴Behold, Boaz came from Bethlehem, and said to the reapers, “Yahweh be with you.” They answered him, “Yahweh bless you.”

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

⁵Then Boaz said to his servant who was set over the reapers, “Whose young lady is this?”

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

⁶The servant who was set over the reapers answered, “It is the Moabite lady who came back with Naomi out of the country of Moab.

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

⁷She said, ‘Please let me glean and gather after the reapers among the sheaves.’ So she came, and has continued even from the morning until now, except that she stayed a little in the house.”

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.

⁸Then Boaz said to Ruth, “Listen, my daughter. Don’t go to glean in another field, and don’t go from here, but stay here close to my maidens.

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

⁹Let your eyes be on the field that they reap, and go after them. Haven’t I commanded the young men not to touch you? When you are thirsty, go to the vessels, and drink from that which the young men have drawn.”

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!

¹⁰Then she fell on her face, and bowed herself to the ground, and said to him, “Why have I found favor in your sight, that you should take knowledge of me, since I am a foreigner?”

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?

¹¹Boaz answered her, “It has fully been shown me, all that you have done to your mother-in-law since the death of your husband; and how you have left your father and your mother, and the land of your birth, and have come to a people that you didn’t know before.

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.

¹²May Yahweh repay your work, and a full reward be given you from Yahweh, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to take refuge.”

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!

¹³Then she said, “Let me find favor in your sight, my lord, because you have comforted me, and because you have spoken kindly to your handmaid, though I am not as one of your handmaidens.”

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.

¹⁴At meal time Boaz said to her, “Come here, and eat of the bread, and dip your morsel in the vinegar.” She sat beside the reapers, and they reached her parched grain, and she ate, and was satisfied, and left some of it.

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.

¹⁵When she had risen up to glean, Boaz commanded his young men, saying, “Let her glean even among the sheaves, and don’t reproach her.

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

¹⁶Also pull out some for her from the bundles, and leave it, and let her glean, and don’t rebuke her.”

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

¹⁷So she gleaned in the field until evening; and she beat out that which she had gleaned, and it was about an ephah 1 ephah is about 22 litres or about 2/3 of a bushel of barley.

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

¹⁸She took it up, and went into the city; and her mother-in-law saw what she had gleaned: and she brought out and gave to her that which she had left after she was sufficed.

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.

¹⁹Her mother-in-law said to her, “Where have you gleaned today? Where have you worked? Blessed be he who noticed you.” She showed her mother-in-law with whom she had worked, and said, “The man’s name with whom I worked today is Boaz.”

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.

²⁰Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, “Blessed be he of Yahweh, who has not left off his kindness to the living and to the dead.” Naomi said to her, “The man is a close relative to us, one of our near kinsmen.”

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.

²¹Ruth the Moabitess said, “Yes, he said to me, ‘You shall stay close to my young men, until they have ended all my harvest.’”

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

²²Naomi said to Ruth her daughter-in-law, “It is good, my daughter, that you go out with his maidens, and that they not meet you in any other field.”

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.

²³So she stayed close to the maidens of Boaz, to glean to the end of barley harvest and of wheat harvest; and she lived with her mother-in-law.

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