Rut 2

¹Noemi'nin kocasının tanınmış ve seçkin bir akrabası vardı; bu adam Elimelek'in soyundan gelen, nüfuzlu ve güçlü biriydi, adı da Boaz'dı.

²Moavlı Rut Noemi'ye, "İzin ver de tarlaya gideyim" dedi, "gözünde lütuf bulacağım birinin arkasından başaklar arasında başak devşireyim." Noemi de ona, "Git, kızım" dedi.

³Böylece Rut gitti ve tarlaya varıp orakçıların arkasından başak devşirmeye başladı. Kaderin bir cilvesiyle yolu, Elimelek'in soyundan olan Boaz'ın tarladaki payına düştü.

⁴O sırada işte Boaz Beytlehem'den geldi ve orakçılara, "Rab sizinle olsun!" dedi. Onlar da, "Rab seni kutsasın!" diye karşılık verdiler.

⁵Boaz, orakçıların başında duran hizmetkârına, "Bu genç kadın kimin soyundandır?" diye sordu.

⁶Orakçıların başında duran hizmetkâr şöyle yanıt verdi: "O, Noemi ile birlikte Moav topraklarından geri dönen Moavlı genç kızdır."

⁷"Bana, 'Lütfen izin verin de orakçıların arkasından, demetlerin arasından başak devşirip toplayayım' dedi. Sabahtan beri buradaydı ve akşama kadar ayakta kaldı, tarlada bir an bile dinlenmedi."

⁸Boaz Rut'a, "Duymuyor musun, kızım?" dedi, "Başak devşirmek için başka tarlaya gitme, buradan ayrılma; burada benim hizmetçi kızlarımla birlikte kal."

⁹"Gözün, biçtikleri tarlada olsun ve onların arkasından git. Sana dokunmamaları için hizmetkârlarıma buyruk verdim. Susadığın zaman kapların yanına git ve hizmetkârların çektiği sudan iç."

¹⁰Bunun üzerine Rut yüzüstü yere kapandı, secde ederek ona, "Ben bir yabancı olduğum halde, nasıl oldu da gözünde lütuf buldum ve beni fark edip ilgi gösterdin?" dedi.

¹¹Boaz şöyle yanıt verdi: "Kocanın ölümünden sonra kayınvaliden için yaptığın her şey, anneni babanı ve doğduğun ülkeyi bırakıp daha önce, dün ve önceki gün hiç tanımadığın bir halkın arasına nasıl geldiğin bana ayrıntılarıyla anlatıldı."

¹²"Rab yaptıklarının karşılığını versin; kanatları altına sığınmaya geldiğin İsrail'in Tanrısı Rab'den alacağın ödül tam olsun."

¹³Rut, "Efendim, gözünde lütuf bulmaya devam edeyim," dedi, "çünkü beni teselli ettin ve hizmetçinin yüreğine dokunacak şekilde konuştun; ve işte, senin hizmetçi kızlarından biri gibi olacağım."

¹⁴Yemek vakti gelince Boaz ona, "Buraya gel, ekmekten ye, lokmanı sirkeye batır" dedi. Rut orakçıların yanına oturdu; Boaz ona kavrulmuş arpa yığdı. Rut yiyip doydu, hatta arttırdı bile.

¹⁵Rut başak devşirmek için ayağa kalkınca, Boaz hizmetkârlarına şöyle buyurdu: "Demetlerin arasında bile başak devşirmesine izin verin, onu utandırıp küçük düşürmeyin."

¹⁶"Hatta onun için demetlerden kasıtlı olarak başaklar çekip bırakın; toplasın ve yesin, onu azarlamayın."

¹⁷Böylece Rut akşama kadar tarlada başak devşirdi. Devşirdiklerini dövünce yaklaşık bir efa arpa elde etti.

¹⁸Bunu yüklenip kente döndü. Kayınvalidesi onun devşirdiklerini gördü. Rut ayrıca doyduktan sonra artırdığı yiyeceği de çıkarıp ona verdi.

¹⁹Kayınvalidesi ona, "Bugün nerede başak devşirdin, nerede çalıştın?" dedi, "Sana ilgi gösteren kutsansın!" Rut nerede çalıştığını kayınvalidesine anlatarak, "Bugün yanında çalıştığım adamın adı Boaz'dır" dedi.

²⁰Noemi gelinine, "Yaşayanlardan da ölenlerden de merhametini esirgemeyen Rab onu kutsasın!" dedi. Sonra ekledi: "O adam bize yakın biridir, kurtarıcı akrabalık haklarımıza sahip olanlardan biridir."

²¹Rut kayınvalidesine şöyle dedi: "Üstelik bana, 'Benim bütün hasadım bitene kadar genç kızlarımla birlikte kal' dedi."

²²Noemi gelini Rut'a, "Kızım, onun hizmetçi kızlarıyla gitmen iyi olur" dedi, "böylece başka bir tarlada sana sataşmazlar."

²³Böylece Rut, arpa ve buğday hasadı bitene kadar başak devşirmek için Boaz'ın hizmetçi kızlarıyla birlikte kaldı.

¹ΚΑΙ τῇ Νωεμὶν ἀνὴρ γνώριμος τῷ ἀνδρὶ αὐτῆς· ὁ δὲ ἀνὴρ δυνατὸς ἰσχύϊ ἐκ τῆς συγγενείας ᾿Ελιμέλεχ, καὶ ὄνομα αὐτῷ Βοόζ.

²καὶ εἶπε Ῥοὺθ ἡ Μωαβῖτις πρὸς Νωεμίν· πορευθῶ δὴ εἰς ἀγρὸν καὶ συνάξω ἐν τοῖς στάχυσι κατόπισθεν οὗ ἐὰν εὕρω χάριν ἐν ὀφθαλμοῖς αὐτοῦ. εἶπε δὲ αὐτῇ· πορεύου, θύγατερ.

³καὶ ἐπορεύθη καὶ ἐλθοῦσα συνέλεξεν ἐν τῷ ἀγρῷ κατόπισθεν τῶν θεριζόντων· καὶ περιέπεσε περιπτώματι τῇ μερίδι τοῦ ἀγροῦ Βοὸζ τοῦ ἐκ τῆς συγγενείας ᾿Ελιμέλεχ.

⁴καὶ ἰδοὺ Βοὸζ ἦλθεν ἐκ Βηθλεὲμ καὶ εἶπε τοῖς θερίζουσι· Κύριος μεθ᾿ ὑμῶν· καὶ εἶπον αὐτῷ· εὐλογήσαι σε Κύριος.

⁵καὶ εἶπε Βοὸζ τῷ παιδαρίῳ αὐτοῦ τῷ ἐφεστῶτι ἐπὶ τοὺς θερίζοντας· τίνος ἡ νεᾶνις αὕτη;

⁶καὶ ἀπεκρίθη τὸ παιδάριον τὸ ἐφεστὼς ἐπὶ τοὺς θερίζοντας καὶ εἶπεν· ἡ παῖς ἡ Μωαβῖτίς ἐστιν ἡ ἀποστραφεῖσα μετὰ Νωεμὶν ἐξ ἀγροῦ Μωὰβ

⁷καὶ εἶπε· συλλέξω δὴ καὶ συνάξω ἐν τοῖς δράγμασιν ὄπισθεν τῶν θεριζόντων· καὶ ἦλθε καὶ ἔστη ἀπὸ πρωΐθεν καὶ ἕως ἑσπέρας, οὐ κατέπαυσεν ἐν τῷ ἀγρῷ μικρόν.

⁸καὶ εἶπε Βοὸζ πρὸς Ῥούθ· οὐκ ἤκουσας, θύγατερ; μὴ πορευθῇς ἐν ἀγρῷ συλλέξαι ἑτέρῳ, καὶ σὺ οὐ πορεύσῃ ἐντεῦθεν· ὧδε κολλήθητι μετὰ τῶν κορασίων μου·

⁹οἱ ὀφθαλμοί σου εἰς τὸν ἀγρόν, οὗ ἐὰν θερίζωσι, καὶ πορεύσῃ κατόπισθεν αὐτῶν· ἰδοὺ ἐνετειλάμην τοῖς παιδαρίοις τοῦ μὴ ἅψαισθαί σου· καὶ ὅτε διψήσεις καὶ πορευθήσῃ εἰς τὰ σκεύη καὶ πίεσαι ὅθεν ἐὰν ὑδρεύωνται τὰ παιδάρια.

¹⁰καὶ ἔπεσεν ἐπὶ πρόσωπον αὐτῆς καὶ προσεκύνησεν ἐπὶ τὴν γῆν καὶ εἶπε πρὸς αὐτόν· τί ὅτι εὗρον χάριν ἐν ὀφθαλμοῖς σου τοῦ ἐπιγνῶναί με, καὶ ἐγώ εἰμι ξένη;

¹¹καὶ ἀπεκρίθη Βοὸζ καὶ εἶπεν αὐτῇ· ἀπαγγελίᾳ ἀπηγγέλη μοι ὅσα πεποίηκας μετὰ τῆς πενθερᾶς σου μετὰ τὸ ἀποθανεῖν τὸν ἄνδρα σου καὶ πῶς κατέλιπες τὸν πατέρα σου καὶ τὴν μητέρα σου καὶ τὴν γῆν γενέσεώς σου καὶ ἐπορεύθης πρὸς λαόν, ὃν οὐκ ᾔδεις ἐχθὲς καὶ τρίτης·

¹²ἀποτίσαι Κύριος τὴν ἐργασίαν σου καὶ γένοιτο ὁ μισθός σου πλήρης παρὰ Κυρίου Θεοῦ ᾿Ισραήλ, πρὸς ὃν ἦλθες πεποιθέναι ὑπὸ τὰς πτέρυγας αὐτοῦ.

¹³ἡ δὲ εἶπεν· εὕροιμι χάριν ἐν ὀφθαλμοῖς σου, κύριε, ὅτι παρεκάλεσάς με καὶ ὅτι ἐλάλησας ἐπὶ καρδίαν τῆς δούλης σου, καὶ ἰδοὺ ἐγὼ ἔσομαι ὡς μία τῶν παιδισκῶν σου.

¹⁴καὶ εἶπεν αὐτῇ Βοόζ· ἤδη ὥρα τοῦ φαγεῖν, πρόσελθε ὧδε καὶ φάγεσαι τῶν ἄρτων καὶ βάψεις τὸν ψωμόν σου ἐν τῷ ὄξει. καὶ ἐκάθισε Ῥοὺθ ἐκ πλαγίων τῶν θεριζόντων, καὶ ἐβούνισεν αὐτῇ Βοὸζ ἄλφιτον, καὶ ἔφαγε καὶ ἐνεπλήσθη καὶ κατέλιπε.

¹⁵καὶ ἀνέστη τοῦ συλλέγειν, καὶ ἐνετείλατο Βοὸζ τοῖς παιδαρίοις αὐτοῦ λέγων· καί γε ἀνὰ μέσον τῶν δραγμάτων συλλεγέτω, καὶ μὴ καταισχύνητε αὐτήν·

¹⁶καὶ βαστάζοντες βαστάσατε αὐτῇ καί γε παραβάλλοντες παραβαλεῖτε αὐτῇ ἐκ τῶν βεβουνισμένων· καὶ φάγεται καὶ συλλέξει, καὶ οὐκ ἐπιτιμήσετε αὐτῇ.

¹⁷καὶ συνέλεξεν ἐν τῷ ἀγρῷ ἕως ἑσπέρας· καὶ ἐρράβδισεν ἃ συνέλεξε, καὶ ἐγενήθη ὡς οἰφὶ κριθῶν.

¹⁸καὶ ᾖρε καὶ εἰσῆλθεν εἰς τὴν πόλιν, καὶ εἶδεν ἡ πενθερὰ αὐτῆς ἃ συνέλεξε, καὶ ἐξενέγκασα Ῥοὺθ ἔδωκεν αὐτῇ ἃ κατέλιπεν, ἐξ ὧν ἐνεπλήσθη.

¹⁹καὶ εἶπεν αὐτῇ ἡ πενθερὰ αὐτῆς· ποῦ συνέλεξας σήμερον καὶ ποῦ ἐποίησας; εἴη ὁ ἐπιγνούς σε εὐλογημένος. καὶ ἀνήγγειλε Ῥοὺθ τῇ πενθερᾷ αὐτῆς ποῦ ἐποίησε, καὶ εἶπε· τὸ ὄνομα τοῦ ἀνδρός, μεθ᾿ οὗ ἐποίησα σήμερον, Βοόζ.

²⁰εἶπε δὲ Νωεμὶν τῇ νύμφῃ αὐτῆς· εὐλογητός ἐστι τῷ Κυρίῳ, ὅτι οὐκ ἐγκατέλιπε τὸ ἔλεος αὐτοῦ μετὰ τῶν ζώντων καὶ μετὰ τῶν τεθνηκότων. καὶ εἶπεν αὐτῇ Νωεμίν· ἐγγίζει ἡμῖν ὁ ἀνήρ, ἐκ τῶν ἀγχιστευόντων ἡμῖν ἐστι.

²¹καὶ εἶπε Ῥοὺθ πρὸς τὴν πενθερὰν αὐτῆς· καί γε ὅτι εἶπε πρός με· μετὰ τῶν κορασίων τῶν ἐμῶν προσκολλήθητι ἕως ἂν τελέσωσιν ὅλον τὸν ἀμητόν, ὃς ὑπάρχει μοι.

²²καὶ εἶπε Νωεμὶν πρὸς Ῥοὺθ τὴν νύμφην αὐτῆς· ἀγαθόν, θύγατερ, ὅτι ἐξῆλθες μετὰ τῶν κορασίων αὐτοῦ, καὶ οὐκ ἀπαντήσονταί σοι ἐν ἀγρῷ ἑτέρῳ.

²³καὶ προσεκολλήθη Ῥοὺθ τοῖς κορασίοις τοῦ Βοὸζ τοῦ συλλέγειν ἕως τοῦ συντελέσαι τὸν θερισμὸν τῶν κριθῶν καὶ τῶν πυρῶν.

¹And Noemin had [a friend] an acquaintance of her husband, and the man [was] a mighty man of the kindred of Elimelech, and his name [was] Booz.

²And Ruth the Moabitess said to Noemin, Let me go now to the field, and I will glean among the ears behind the man with whomsoever I shall find favour: and she said to her, Go, daughter.

³And she went; and came and gleaned in the field behind the reapers; and she happened by chance to come on a portion of the land of Booz, of the kindred of Elimelech.

⁴And, behold, Booz came from Bethleem, and said to the reapers, The Lord [be] with you: and they said to him, The Lord bless thee.

⁵And Booz said to his servant who was set over the reapers, Whose [is] this damsel?

⁶And his servant who was set over the reapers answered and said, It is the Moabitish damsel who returned with Noemin out of the land of Moab.

⁷And she said, I pray you, let me glean and gather among the sheaves after the reapers: and she came and stood from morning till evening, and rested not [even] a little in the field.

⁸And Booz said to Ruth, Hast thou not heard, [my] daughter? go not to glean in another field; and depart not thou hence, join thyself here with my damsels.

⁹[Let] thine eyes [be] on the field where [my men] shall reap, and thou shalt go after them: behold, I have charged the young men not to touch thee: and when you shalt thirst, then thou shalt go to the vessels, and drink of that which the young men shall have drawn.

¹⁰And she fell upon her face, and did reverence to the ground, and said to him, How is it that I have found grace in thine eyes, that thou shouldest take notice of me, whereas I am a stranger?

¹¹And Booz answered and said to her, It has fully been told me how thou hast dealt with thy mother-in-law after the death of thy husband; and how thou didst leave thy father and thy mother, and the land of thy birth, and camest to a people whom thou knewest not before.

¹²The Lord recompense thy work; may a full reward be given thee of the Lord God of Israel, to whom thou hast come to trust under his wings.

¹³And she said, Let me find grace in thy sight, my lord, because thou hast comforted me, and because thou hast spoken kindly to thy handmaid, and behold, I shall be as one of thy servants.

¹⁴And Booz said to her, Now [it is] time to eat; come hither, and thou shalt eat of the bread, and thou shalt dip thy morsel in the vinegar: and Ruth sat by the side of the reapers: and Booz handed her meal, and she ate, and was satisfied, and left.

¹⁵And she rose up to glean; and Booz charged his young men, saying, Let her even glean among the sheaves, and reproach her not.

¹⁶And do ye by all means carry it for her, and ye shall surely let fall for her some of that which is heaped up; and let her eat, and glean, and rebuke her not.

¹⁷So she gleaned in the field till evening, and beat out that she had gleaned, and it was about an ephah of barley.

¹⁸And she took [it] up, and went into the city: and her mother-in-law saw what she had gleaned, and Ruth brought forth and gave to her the food which she had left from what she had been satisfied with.

¹⁹And her mother-in-law said to her, Where hast thou gleaned to-day, and where hast thou wrought? blessed be he that took notice of thee. And Ruth told her mother-in-law where she [had] wrought, and said, The name of the man with whom I wrought to-day [is] Booz.

²⁰And Noemin said to her daughter-in-law, Blessed is he of the Lord, because he has not failed in his mercy with the living and with the dead: and Noemin said to her The man is near akin to us, he is one of our relations.

²¹And Ruth said to her mother-in-law, Yea, he said also to me, Keep close to my damsels, until the men shall have finished all my reaping.

²²And Noemin said to Ruth her daughter-in-law, [It is] well, daughter, that thou wentest out with his damsels; thus they shall not meet thee in another field.

²³And Ruth joined herself to the damsels of Booz to glean until they had finished the barley-harvest and the wheat-harvest.