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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Ruth 2 Brenton's Septuagint Translation</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/ruth/2.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/ruth/2-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">Brenton</a> > Ruth 2</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../ruth/1.htm" title="Ruth 1">◄</a> Ruth 2 <a href="../ruth/3.htm" title="Ruth 3">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Brenton's Septuagint Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/ruth/2-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">Boaz Meets Ruth<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/2-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>And Noemin had <i>a friend</i> an acquaintance of her husband, and the man <i>was</i> a mighty man of the kindred of Elimelech, and his name <i>was</i> Booz. <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/2-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>And 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. <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/2-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>And 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. <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/2-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And, behold, Booz came from Bethleem, and said to the reapers, The Lord <i>be</i> with you: and they said to him, The Lord bless thee. <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/2-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And Booz said to his servant who was set over the reapers, Whose <i>is</i> this damsel? <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/2-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And 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. <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/2-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And 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 <i>even</i> a little in the field.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/2-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And Booz said to Ruth, Hast thou not heard, <i>my</i> daughter? go not to glean in another field; and depart not thou hence, join thyself here with my damsels. <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/2-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><i>Let</i> thine eyes <i>be</i> on the field where <i>my men</i> 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. <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/2-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And 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? <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/2-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And 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. <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/2-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>The 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. <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/2-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And 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.<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/2-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And Booz said to her, Now <i>it is</i> 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. <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/2-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And she rose up to glean; and Booz charged his young men, saying, Let her even glean among the sheaves, and reproach her not. <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/2-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And 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.<p> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/2-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>So she gleaned in the field till evening, and beat out that she had gleaned, and it was about an ephah of barely. <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/2-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And she took <i>it</i> 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. <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/2-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>And 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 <i>had</i> wrought, and said, The name of the man with whom I wrought to-day <i>is</i> Booz. <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/2-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>And 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. <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/2-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>And 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. <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/2-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>And Noemin said to Ruth her daughter-in-law, <i>It is</i> well, daughter, that thou wentest out with his damsels; thus they shall not meet thee in another field. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/2-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>And Ruth joined herself to the damsels of Booz to glean until they had finished the barley-harvest and the wheat-harvest.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The English translation of The Septuagint by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton (1851)<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</i><span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../ruth/1.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Ruth 1"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Ruth 1" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../ruth/3.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Ruth 3"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Ruth 3" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>