Rheims Douai [1582], THE NEVV TESTAMENT OF IESVS CHRIST, TRANSLATED FAITHFVLLY INTO ENGLISH out of the authentical Latin, according to the best corrected copies of the same, diligently conferred vvith the Greeke and other editions in diuers languages: Vvith Argvments of bookes and chapters, Annotations, and other necessarie helpes, for the better vnderstanding of the text, and specially for the discouerie of the Corrvptions of diuers late translations, and for cleering the Controversies in religion, of these daies: In the English College of Rhemes (Printed... by Iohn Fogny, RHEMES) [word count] [B09000].
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Chap. I.
By occasion of famine Elimelech of Bethleem going with his wife Noemi, and
two sonnes, into the Land of Moab, there dieth. 4. His sonnes marrie wiues
of that countrie, and die without issue. 6. Noemi returning homewardes
hardly perswadeth one of her daughters in law, to part from her. 15. The
other, called Ruth, wil needes goe with her, profe&esset;ing the same God and
Religion. 19. So these two arriue in Betheleem.
1 In the dayes of one Iudge, when the Iudges ruled,
there came a famine in the Land. And there went
a man of Bethleem Iuda, to seiourne in the land of
Moab with his wife, and two children.
2 him self
was called Elimelech, and his wife, Noemi: and his two
sonnes, the one Mahalon, and the other Chelion, Ephraites
of Bethleem Iuda. And entring into the countrie of Moab,
they abode there.
3 And Elimelech the husband of Noemi
died: and she remained with her sonnes.
4 Who tooke wiues
of the Moabites, of the which one was called Orpha, and the
other Ruth. And they abode there ten yeares,
5 and both died,
to witte, Mahalon and Chelion: and the woman remayned destitute
of her two children & her husband.
6 And she arose to
goe into her countrie with both her daughters in law from
the countrie of Moab: for she had heard that our Lord had
respected his people, & had geuen them victuals.
7 She therfore
went forth from the place of her peregrination, with
both her daughters in law: and being now sette in the way
to returne into the Land of Iuda,
8 she said to them: Goe into
your mothers house, our Lord doe mercie with you, as you
haue done with the dead and with me.
9 Grant he vnto you
to find rest in the houses of your husbandes, which you shal
take. And she kissed them. Who lifting vp their voice beganne
to weepe,
10 & to say: We wil goe on with thee to thy people.
11 To whom she answered: Returne my daughters, why come
you with me? shal I haue sonnes any more in my wombe, that
you may hope for husbandes of me?
12 Returne my daughters,
and goe your wayes: for I am now spent with old age,
and not fitte for wedlocke. Although I might conceiue this
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Elimelech. Noemi.
night, and beare children,
13 if you would expect til they
grow, and be of mans age, you shal be old women befor you
marrie. Doe not so my daughters, I besech you: for your distresse
doth the more greue me, and the hand of our Lord is
come forth against me.
14 Therfore lifting vp their voice, they
beganne to weepe agayne, Orpha kissed her mother in law,
and returned: Ruth cleaued to her mother in law.
15 to whom
Noemi said: Behold thy kinsemwoman is returned to her people,
and note to her goddes, goe with her.
16 Who answered:
Be not against me, to the end that I should leaue thee and depart:
for whither soeuer thou shalt goe, I wil goe: and where
thou shalt abide, I also wil abide. Thy people my people, and
thy God my God.
17 The land that shal receiue thee dying, in
the same wil I die: and there wil I take a place for my burial.
These thinges doe God to me, & these thinges adde he, if death
onlie shal not separate me and thee.
18 Noemi therfore seing,
that Ruth with a stidfast mind had determined to goe forward
with her, would not be against it, nor perswade her any
more to returne to her frendes:
19 and they went forth
together, and came into Bethlehem. Who being entered into
the citie, a brute was quickly spred among them: and the
wemen said: This is that Noemi.
20 To whom she said: Cal
me not Noemi (that it to say, beautiful) but cal me Mara
(that is to say, bitter) because with bitternes hath the Almightie
very much replenished me.
21 I went forth note ful,
and our Lord hath brought me backe emptie. Why therfore
doe you cal me Noemi whom our Lord hath humbled, and
the Almightie hath afflicted?
22 Noemi therfore came with
Ruth the Moabite her daughter in law, from the Land of her
peregrination: and returned into Bethlehem, when barley
was first reaped.
Rheims Douai [1582], THE NEVV TESTAMENT OF IESVS CHRIST, TRANSLATED FAITHFVLLY INTO ENGLISH out of the authentical Latin, according to the best corrected copies of the same, diligently conferred vvith the Greeke and other editions in diuers languages: Vvith Argvments of bookes and chapters, Annotations, and other necessarie helpes, for the better vnderstanding of the text, and specially for the discouerie of the Corrvptions of diuers late translations, and for cleering the Controversies in religion, of these daies: In the English College of Rhemes (Printed... by Iohn Fogny, RHEMES) [word count] [B09000].
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