Ruth 2 Free Bible Version
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1 Now Naomi had a relative on her husband's side whose name was Boaz. He was a rich and influential man from the family of Elimelech.
1 Y TENÍA Noemi un pariente de su marido, varón poderoso y de hecho, de la familia de Elimelech, el cual se llamaba Booz.
2 Soon after, Ruth the Moabite said to Naomi, “Please let me go to the fields and pick up grain that's been left behind—if I can find someone who'll give me permission.” “Yes, go ahead, my daughter,” Naomi replied.
2 Y Ruth la Moabita dijo á Noemi: Ruégote que me dejes ir al campo, y cogeré espigas en pos de aquel á cuyos ojos hallare gracia. Y ella le respondió: Ve, hija mía.
3 So she went and picked up grain the reapers had left behind. She happened to be working in a field that belonged to Boaz, a relative of Elimelech.
3 Fué pues, y llegando, espigó en el campo en pos de los segadores: y aconteció por ventura, que la suerte del campo era de Booz, el cual era de la parentela de Elimelech.
4 Later on Boaz arrived from Bethlehem, and said to the reapers, “May the Lord be with you!” They replied, “The Lord bless you!”
4 Y he aquí que Booz vino de Beth-lehem, y dijo á los segadores: Jehová sea con vosotros. Y ellos respondieron: Jehová te bendiga.
5 Then Boaz asked his servant who was in charge of the harvesters, “Who is this young woman related to?”
5 Y Booz dijo á su criado el sobrestante de los segadores: ¿Cúya es esta moza?
6 “The young woman is a Moabite who came back with Naomi from Moab,” the servant replied.
6 Y el criado, sobrestante de los segadores, respondió y dijo: Es la moza de Moab, que volvió con Noemi de los campos de Moab;
7 “She asked me, ‘Please may I have permission to pick up grain behind the reapers.’ So she came, and she's been working here from morning until now, except for a brief rest in the shelter.”
7 Y ha dicho: Ruégote que me dejes coger y juntar tras los segadores entre las gavillas: entró pues, y está desde por la mañana hasta ahora, menos un poco que se detuvo en casa.
8 Boaz went and spoke to Ruth. “Listen to me, my daughter,” he told her. “Don't leave to go and pick up grain in someone else's field. Stay close to my women.
8 Entonces Booz dijo á Ruth: Oye, hija mía, no vayas á espigar á otro campo, ni pases de aquí: y aquí estarás con mis mozas.
9 Pay attention to what part of the field the men are reaping and follow the women. I've told the men not to bother you. When you get thirsty, go and have a drink from the water jars the servants have filled.”
9 Mira bien al campo que segaren, y síguelas: porque yo he mandado á los mozos que no te toquen. Y si tuvieres sed, ve á los vasos, y bebe del [agua] que sacaren los mozos.
10 She bowed down with her face to the ground. “Why are you being so kind to me or even notice me, seeing I'm a foreigner?” she asked him.
10 Ella entonces bajando su rostro inclinóse á tierra, y díjole: ¿Por qué he hallado gracia en tus ojos para que tú me reconozcas, siendo yo extranjera?
11 “I've heard about all you've done for your mother-in-law since your husband died,” Boaz replied. “And also how you left your father and mother, and the land of your birth, to come and live among people you didn't know.
11 Y respondiendo Booz, díjole: Por cierto se me ha declarado todo lo que has hecho con tu suegra después de la muerte de tu marido, y que dejando á tu padre y á tu madre y la tierra donde naciste, has venido á pueblo que no conociste antes.
12 May the Lord fully reward you for all you've done—the Lord, the God of Israel, to whom you've come for protection.”
12 Jehová galardone tu obra, y tu remuneración sea llena por Jehová Dios de Israel, que has venido para cubrirte debajo de sus alas.
13 “Thank you for being so good to me, sir,” she replied. “You have reassured me by speaking to me kindly. I'm not even one of your servants.”
13 Y ella dijo: Señor mío, halle yo gracia delante de tus ojos; porque me has consolado, y porque has hablado al corazón de tu sierva, no siendo yo como una de tus criadas.
14 When it was time to eat, Boaz called her over. “Come here,” he said. “Take some bread and dip it in wine vinegar.” So she sat down with the workers and Boaz passed her some roasted grain to eat. She ate until she'd had enough with some left over.
14 Y Booz le dijo á la hora de comer: Allégate aquí, y come del pan, y moja tu bocado en el vinagre. Y sentóse ella junto á los segadores, y él le dió del potaje, y comió hasta que se hartó y le sobró.
15 After Ruth went back to work Boaz told his men, “Let her pick up grain even among the sheaves. Don't say anything to embarrass her.
15 Levantóse luego para espigar. Y Booz mandó á sus criados, diciendo: Coja también espigas entre las gavillas, y no la avergoncéis;
16 In fact, pull out some stalks from the bundles you're cutting and leave them for her to pick up. Don't tell her off.”
16 Antes echaréis á sabiendas de los manojos, y la dejaréis que coja, y no la reprendáis.
17 Ruth worked in the field until the evening. When she beat out the grain that she had picked up it was a large amount.
17 Y espigó en el campo hasta la tarde, y desgranó lo que había cogido, y fué como un epha de cebada.
18 She picked it up and took it back to town to show her mother-in-law how much she had collected. Ruth also gave her what she had left over from her meal.
18 Y tomólo, y vínose á la ciudad; y su suegra vió lo que había cogido. Sacó también luego lo que le había sobrado después de harta, y dióselo.
19 Naomi asked her, “Where did you pick up grain today? Exactly where did you work? Bless whoever cared enough about you to pay you some attention!” So she told her mother-in-law about who she had worked with. “The man I worked with today is called Boaz.”
19 Y díjole su suegra: ¿Dónde has espigado hoy? ¿y dónde has trabajado? bendito sea el que te ha reconocido. Y ella declaró á su suegra lo que le había acontecido con aquél, y dijo: El nombre del varón con quien hoy he trabajado es Booz.
20 “The Lord bless him!” Naomi exclaimed to her daughter-in-law. “He goes on showing his kindness to the living and the dead. That man is a close relative to us—a ‘family redeemer.’”
20 Y dijo Noemi á su nuera: Sea él bendito de Jehová, pues que no ha rehusado á los vivos la benevolencia que tuvo para con los finados. Díjole después Noemi: Nuestro pariente es aquel varón, y de nuestros redentores es.
21 Ruth added, “He also told me, ‘Stay close to my workers until they have finished harvesting my entire crop.’”
21 Y Ruth Moabita dijo: A más de esto me ha dicho: Júntate con mis criados, hasta que hayan acabado toda mi siega.
22 “That's good, my daughter,” Naomi told Ruth. “Stay with his women workers. Don't go to other fields where you might be molested.”
22 Y Noemi respondió á Ruth su nuera: Mejor es, hija mía, que salgas con sus criadas, que no que te encuentren en otro campo.
23 So Ruth stayed with Boaz's women workers, picking up grain until the end of the barley harvest, and then on to the end of the wheat harvest. She lived with her mother-in-law the whole time.
23 Estuvo pues junta con las mozas de Booz espigando, hasta que la siega de las cebadas y la de los trigos fué acabada; mas con su suegra habitó.
People & places in this chapter
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People
Boaz
The kind landowner of Bethlehem who redeemed and married Ruth the Moabite.
Cited in the guide: Ruth 2-4; 1 Chron. 2:11-12; Matt. 1:5
Elimelech
Ephrathite of Bethlehem in Judah who took his wife Naomi and sons Mahlon and Chilion to Moab in a famine and died there, whose clan-relative Boaz later bought back his land.
Cited in the guide: Ruth 1:2; Ruth 1:3; Ruth 2:1
Ruth
The loyal Moabite widow whose devotion made her great-grandmother of King David.
Cited in the guide: Ruth 1-4; Matthew 1:5
Cross references (23)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Ruth 4:21; Ruth 3:12; Ruth 3:2; Matthew 1:5; Deuteronomy 8:17–18
- 2 Leviticus 23:22; Leviticus 19:9; Deuteronomy 24:19–21; Leviticus 19:16; Ruth 2:7
- 3 2 Thessalonians 3:12; Matthew 10:29; Luke 10:31; 1 Thessalonians 4:11–12; 2 Kings 8:5
- 4 Psalm 129:7–8; Luke 1:28; Judges 6:12; 2 Timothy 4:22; 2 Thessalonians 3:16
- 5 1 Chronicles 2:11–12; Ruth 4:21
- 6 Ruth 1:22; Matthew 24:45; Genesis 39:4; Ruth 1:19; Ruth 1:16
- 7 Proverbs 15:33; Proverbs 22:29; 1 Peter 5:5–6; Ephesians 5:21; Proverbs 13:4
- 8 2 Kings 5:13; Matthew 9:2; Song of Songs 1:7–8; 1 Samuel 3:16; 1 Samuel 3:6
- 9 1 John 5:18; Genesis 20:6; Matthew 10:42; 1 Corinthians 7:1; Psalm 105:15
- 10 1 Samuel 25:23; Ruth 2:13; Luke 1:48; Luke 17:16–18; Luke 1:43
- 11 Luke 14:33; Luke 18:29–30; Luke 5:11; Ruth 1:14–22; Psalm 45:10
- 12 Psalm 36:7; Psalm 91:4; Psalm 63:7; Psalm 17:8; Psalm 61:4
- 13 1 Samuel 1:18; Philippians 2:3; Genesis 33:8; Genesis 34:3; Genesis 33:10
- 14 Ruth 2:18; 2 Kings 4:43–44; Matthew 14:20; Deuteronomy 8:10; Luke 14:12–14
- 15 James 1:5
- 16 Romans 12:13; 1 John 3:17–18; Deuteronomy 24:19–21; Matthew 25:40; Proverbs 19:17
- 17 Proverbs 31:27; Ezekiel 45:11–12; Exodus 16:36
- 18 Ruth 2:14; 1 Timothy 5:4; John 6:12–13
- 19 Ruth 2:10; Psalm 41:1; 1 Kings 7:21; 2 Corinthians 9:13–15
- 20 2 Samuel 2:5; Ruth 3:9–10; Deuteronomy 25:5–7; Leviticus 25:25; Ruth 4:14
- 21 Song of Songs 1:7–8; Ruth 2:7–8; Ruth 2:22
- 22 Song of Songs 1:8; Proverbs 27:10
- 23 Ephesians 6:1–3; Deuteronomy 16:9; Proverbs 6:6–8; 1 Corinthians 15:33; Proverbs 13:20
Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences