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. II.
Ruth gathering eares of corne in Booz field, 8. he kindly biddeth her tarie
with his seruantes. 17. At night she returneth carying good quantitie
of corne, and part of the meate, which they gaue her, to her mother in law.
1 And Elimelech her husband had a cosin, a mightie man,
and of great riches, named Booz.
2 And Ruth the
Moabite said to her mother in law: If thou command, I wil
goe into the field, and gather the eares of corne, that shal
escape the handes of the reapers, where soeuer I shal find the
-- --
Booz.
grace of the father of the house fauorable towardes me. To
whom she answered: Goe my daughter.
3 She went therfore
and gathered the eares of corne after the backes of the reapers.
And it chanced that the owner of the same field was
Booz, who was of the kinred of Elimelech.
4 And behold,
he came out of Bethlehem, and said to the reapers: note Our
Lord be with you. Who answered him: Our Lord blesse thee.
5 And Booz said to the yongman, that was ouerseer of the
reapers: Whose maide is this?
6 To whom he answered:
This is that Moabite, which came with Noemi, from the
countrie of Moab,
7 and she desired that she might gather
the eares of corne that remayne, folowing the steppes of the
reapers: and from morning vntil now she stayeth in the field,
and not so much as for a very moment hath she returned
home.
8 And Booz said to Ruth: Heare me daughter, goe not
into an other field to gather, neither depart thou from this
place: but ioyne thy selfe to my maides,
9 and where they
haue reaped, folow. For I haue commanded my seruantes,
that no man molest thee: but if thou shalt thirst also, goe
to the fardels, and drinke the waters, wherof the seruantes
also doe drinke.
10 who falling on her face and adoring vpon
the ground, said to him: Whence cometh this to me, that
I should find grace before thine eies, and that thou wouldest
voutsafe to know me a strange woman?
11 To whom he
answered: Al thinges haue beene told me, which thou hast
done to thy mother in law after the death of thy husband:
and that thou hast leift thy parentes, and the land wherein
thou wast borne, and art come to a people, which before
thou knewest not.
12 Our Lord note render vnto thee for thy
worke, and God grant thou mayest receiue note a ful reward of
our Lord the God of Israel, to whom thou art come, & vnder
whose winges thou art fled.
13 Who said: I haue found grace
in thine eies my lord, which hast comforted me, and hast spoken
to the hart of thy handmaide, which am not like to one
of thy maides.
14 And Booz said to her: When the houre shal
come to eate, come hither, and eate bread, and dippe thy
morsel in the vinagre. She therfore sate at the side of the reapers,
and she heaped to her selfe polent, and did eate and was
filled, and tooke the leauinges.
15 And from thence she arose,
to gleane the eares of corne after her maner. And Booz commanded
his seruantes, saying: Yea and if she wil reape with
-- --
Booz.
you, forbid her not:
16 and of your owne handfuls also cast
forth of purpose, and let them remaine, that she may gother
them without bashefulnes, and gathering let no man controwle
her.
17 She gloaned therfore in the field vntil euening:
& that which she had gathered beating with a rodde & threshing
she found of barley as it were the measure of an ephi,
that is, three bushels.
18 Which carying she returned into
the citie, and shewed to her mother in law: moreouer she
brought forth, and gaue her of the remaynes of her meate,
wherwith she had beene filled.
19 And her mother in law said
to her: Where hast thou gathered to day, and where hast thou
wrought? blessed be he that hath had mercie on thee. And
she told her with whom she had wrought: and she told the
mans name, that he was called Booz.
20 To whom Noemi
answered: Be he blessed of our Lord: because the same grace,
which he had shewed to the liuing, he hath kept also to the
dead. And agayne she said: The man is our nigh cosin.
21 And
Ruth, This also, quoth she, he commanded me, that so long
I should ioyne my self to the reapers, til al the corne were
reaped.
22 To whom her mother in law said: It is better my
daughter, that thou goe forth with his maides to reape, lest
in an other mans field some may resist thee.
23 She therfore
ioyned her self to the maides of Booz: and so long reaped
with them, til the barley and the wheate were layd vp in
the barnes.
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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