WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.360 --> 00:00:05.879 We are reading in the Old Testament of the Bible. The Book of Ruth. 2 00:00:06.360 --> 00:00:11.000 On this occasion it will be chapter two of Ruth' s Book. 3 00:00:11.679 --> 00:00:17.559 Ruth collects ears in Voice' s field. Chapter two of Ruth' s 4 00:00:17.559 --> 00:00:22.879 Book. They had in me a relative of her husband, a rich man 5 00:00:22.920 --> 00:00:29.239 of Elimelech' s family, whose name was Voice, and Ruth the Moabite. 6 00:00:29.399 --> 00:00:34.799 He said to Naomi, I pray thee, let me go into the 7 00:00:35.119 --> 00:00:42.039 field, and I will gather ears after him in whose sight I will find 8 00:00:42.119 --> 00:00:47.159 favor, and she answered him, my daughter, and came and besought in 9 00:00:47.240 --> 00:00:52.960 the field after the reapers, and it came to pass, that that part 10 00:00:53.039 --> 00:00:54.719 of the field was of Boz, which was of the family of Elimelech. 11 00:00:56.439 --> 00:01:00.960 And here you came from Bethlehem and told the reapers Yahweh be with you and 12 00:01:02.039 --> 00:01:08.040 they answered Yahweh You Bless and you said to your servant, the steward of 13 00:01:08.040 --> 00:01:15.120 the reapers, whose is this young woman? And the servant steward of the 14 00:01:15.200 --> 00:01:19.879 reapers answered and said, It is the young Moabitess who returned with me from 15 00:01:19.959 --> 00:01:26.319 the fields of Moab, and said to thee, Let me gather and gather 16 00:01:26.400 --> 00:01:32.000 after the reapers among the sheaves. So he entered and is from morning until 17 00:01:32.120 --> 00:01:38.680 now, without rest even for a moment. Then you said to Ruth, 18 00:01:38.519 --> 00:01:44.359 " Hey, my daughter, don' t go gleaning into another field, 19 00:01:44.599 --> 00:01:48.760 don' t come from here" And here you will be next to my 20 00:01:48.760 --> 00:01:56.920 maids. Look carefully at the field that they blind and follow them, for 21 00:01:57.040 --> 00:02:02.640 I have commanded the servants not to disturb you, and when you are thirsty 22 00:02:02.879 --> 00:02:08.120 go to the vessels and drink of the water that the servants bring out, 23 00:02:08.599 --> 00:02:14.280 then, lowering her face, she bowed down to the ground and told her 24 00:02:14.840 --> 00:02:23.240 why I have found grace in your eyes, that you may recognize me as 25 00:02:23.360 --> 00:02:29.240 a foreigner, and you said to her, I have known all that you 26 00:02:29.280 --> 00:02:31.120 have done with your mother- in- law after the death of her husband, 27 00:02:32.560 --> 00:02:39.919 and that, leaving your father and your mother and the land where you 28 00:02:40.039 --> 00:02:46.319 were born, you have come to a people that you have not known before, 29 00:02:46.960 --> 00:02:47.039 Yahweh, to reward your work and your reward be fulfilled by Yahweh, 30 00:02:47.039 --> 00:02:47.039 the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to take refuge. 31 00:02:49.439 --> 00:02:53.240 And she said, O my lord, woe I thank in thy sight, 32 00:02:53.759 --> 00:02:59.599 because thou hast comforted me, and because thou hast spoken unto the heart of 33 00:02:59.639 --> 00:03:06.039 thy handmaid, though I am not as one of thy maidservants, and thou 34 00:03:06.080 --> 00:03:12.879 hast said unto her at the time of eating, come here, and eat 35 00:03:13.840 --> 00:03:17.159 of the bread and the nun, the tube laid in the vinegar, and 36 00:03:17.199 --> 00:03:20.879 she sat by the blinders, and he gave her of the pottage, and 37 00:03:20.879 --> 00:03:23.759 ate until she was satisfied, and left him. Then he rose up to 38 00:03:23.319 --> 00:03:30.919 glean, and you sent his servants, saying that you should also gather ears 39 00:03:30.960 --> 00:03:38.400 among the sheaves, and do not shame them, and you will also let 40 00:03:38.400 --> 00:03:42.719 some of the sheaves fall for them, and you will leave them to gather 41 00:03:42.719 --> 00:03:45.599 them, and you will not rebuke them. And he besought in the field 42 00:03:45.599 --> 00:03:51.280 till night, and gave what he had gathered, and it was as an 43 00:03:52.639 --> 00:03:55.599 ephah of barley, and took it, and went into the city, and 44 00:03:55.680 --> 00:04:01.960 his mother- in- law saw what he had gathered, and brought forth 45 00:04:02.080 --> 00:04:10.759 also that which I had left after I had been satisfied, and gave it 46 00:04:10.840 --> 00:04:11.759 to him, and his mother- in- law told him where thou hast 47 00:04:11.759 --> 00:04:14.280 gleanedded today, and where hast thou laboured? Blessed is he that hath recognized 48 00:04:14.360 --> 00:04:19.160 thee, and she hath told her mother- in- law with whom she 49 00:04:19.240 --> 00:04:26.519 hath labored, and hath spoken the name of the man with whom I have 50 00:04:26.519 --> 00:04:32.759 labored to day is thou, and hath said unto her daughter- in- 51 00:04:33.319 --> 00:04:36.199 law, Blessed be he of the LORD: for he hath not denied to 52 00:04:36.199 --> 00:04:38.920 the living the benevolence which he hath for them that have died. Then said 53 00:04:38.920 --> 00:04:43.560 anah to him, our kinsman, is that man and one of those who 54 00:04:43.639 --> 00:04:49.160 can redeem us and Ruth the Moabite said. Besides this, he told me 55 00:04:49.199 --> 00:04:58.199 to join my maids until all my blind and Naomi are finished. She answered 56 00:04:58.319 --> 00:05:02.680 Ruth, her best daughter- in- law, to go out with her 57 00:05:02.720 --> 00:05:08.279 maids and not to be found in another field. And he stood with the 58 00:05:08.399 --> 00:05:12.480 maids of a voice, and gleaned until the fat of barley and wheat was 59 00:05:12.560 --> 00:05:15.600 gone, and lived with his father- in- law.