Rt 2:1Erat autem virō Elimelech cōnsanguineus, homō potēns, et magnārum opum, nōmine Booz.Now there was a kinsman of the man Elimelech, a powerful man, and of great wealth, by name Boaz. Rt 2:2Dīxitque Ruth Moabītis ad socrum suam: Sī jubēs, vādam in agrum, et colligam spīcās quae fūgerint manūs metentium, ubicumque clēmentis in mē patrisfamiliās reperero grātiam.And Ruth the Moabitess said to her mother-in-law: "If you bid me, I will go into the field, and gather the ears that have escaped the hands of the reapers, wherever I find favour with a householder kind to me." Rt 2:2Cui illa respondit: Vāde, fīlia mea.She answered her: "Go, my daughter." Rt 2:3Abiit itaque et colligēbat spīcās post terga metentium.So she went away and was gathering ears behind the backs of the reapers. Rt 2:3Accidit autem ut ager ille habēret dominum nōmine Booz, quī erat dē cognātiōne Elimelech.Now it happened that that field had a master by name Boaz, who was of the kindred of Elimelech. Rt 2:4Et ecce, ipse veniēbat dē Bethlehem, dīxitque messōribus: Dominus vōbīscum.And look, he himself was coming from Bethlehem, and he said to the reapers: "The Lord be with you."
Rt 2:4Quī respondērunt eī: Benedīcat tibi Dominus.They answered him: "May the Lord bless you." Rt 2:5Dīxitque Booz juvenī, quī messōribus praeerat: Cujus est haec puella?And Boaz said to the young man who was in charge of the reapers: "Whose is this girl?" Rt 2:6Cui respondit: Haec est Moabītis, quae vēnit cum Noëmi, dē regiōne Moabītide, et rogāvit ut spīcās colligeret remanentēs, sequēns messōrum vestīgia: et dē māne ūsque nunc stat in agrō, et nē ad mōmentum quidem domum reversa est.He answered him: "This is the Moabitess who came with Naomi from the region of Moab, and she asked that she might gather the remaining ears, following the footsteps of the reapers: and from morning until now she is standing in the field, and not even for a moment has she gone back home." Rt 2:8Et ait Booz ad Ruth: Audī, fīlia, nē vādās in alterum agrum ad colligendum, nec recēdās ab hōc locō: sed jungere puellīs meīs, et ubi messuerint, Sequere.And Boaz said to Ruth: "Listen, daughter, do not go into another field to gather, nor go away from this place: but join yourself to my girls, and where they reap, follow.
Rt 2:9Mandāvī enim puerīs meīs, ut nēmō molestus sit tibi: sed etiam sī sitieris, vāde ad sarcinulās, et bibe aquās, dē quibus et puerī bibunt.For I have instructed my young men that no one be troublesome to you: but also, if you are thirsty, go to the packs, and drink the waters from which the young men also drink." Rt 2:10Quae cadēns in faciem suam et adōrāns super terram, dīxit ad eum: Unde mihi hoc, ut invenīrem grātiam ante oculōs tuōs, et nōsse mē dignārēris peregrīnam mulierem?She, falling on her face and bowing down upon the ground, said to him: "Whence is this to me, that I should find favour before your eyes, and that you should deign to know me, a foreign woman?" Rt 2:11Cui ille respondit: Nūntiāta sunt mihi omnia quae fēcerīs socruī tuae post mortem virī tuī: et quod relīquerīs parentēs tuōs, et terram in quā nāta es, et vēnerīs ad populum, quem anteā nesciēbās.He answered her: "All the things have been reported to me which you have done for your mother-in-law after the death of your husband: and that you have left your parents, and the land in which you were born, and have come to a people whom formerly you did not know.
Rt 2:12Reddat tibi Dominus prō opere tuō, et plēnam mercēdem recipiās ā Dominō Deō Isrāël, ad quem vēnistī, et sub cujus cōnfūgistī alās.May the Lord repay you for your work, and may you receive a full reward from the Lord God of Israel, to whom you have come, and under whose wings you have fled for refuge." Rt 2:13Quae ait: Invēnī grātiam apud oculōs tuōs, domine mī, quī cōnsōlātus es mē, et locūtus es ad cor ancillae tuae, quae nōn sum similis ūnīus puellārum tuārum.She said: "I have found favour in your eyes, my lord, who have comforted me, and have spoken to the heart of your handmaid, who am not like one of your girls." Rt 2:14Dīxitque ad eam Booz: Quandō hōra vēscendī fuerit, venī hūc, et comede pānem, et intinge buccellam tuam in acētō.And Boaz said to her: "When the hour of eating comes, come here, and eat bread, and dip your morsel in the vinegar." Rt 2:14Sēdit itaque ad messōrum latus, et congessit polentam sibi, comēditque et saturāta est, et tulit reliquiās.So she sat at the side of the reapers, and heaped up parched grain for herself, and ate and was satisfied, and took away the remains.
Rt 2:15Atque inde surrēxit, ut spīcās ex mōre colligeret.And from there she rose, to gather ears as was her custom. Rt 2:15Praecēpit autem Booz puerīs suīs, dīcēns: Etiamsī vōbīscum metere voluerit, nē prohibeātis eam: et dē vestrīs quoque manipulīs prōjicite dē industriā, et remanēre permittite, ut absque rubōre colligat, et colligentem nēmō corripiat.But Boaz instructed his young men, saying: "Even if she wishes to reap with you, do not prevent her: and from your sheaves too throw some down on purpose, and allow them to remain, so that she may gather without shame, and no one may rebuke her as she gathers." Rt 2:17Collēgit ergō in agrō ūsque ad vesperam: et quae collēgerat virgā caedēns et excutiēns, invēnit hordeī quasi ephi mēnsūram, id est, trēs modiōs.So she gathered in the field until evening: and, beating with a rod and shaking out what she had gathered, she found about the measure of an ephah of barley, that is, three measures. Rt 2:18Quōs portāns reversa est in cīvitātem, et ostendit socruī suae: īnsuper prōtulit, et dedit eī dē reliquiīs cibī suī, quō saturāta fuerat.Carrying them she returned into the city, and showed them to her mother-in-law: moreover she brought out, and gave her some of the remains of her food, with which she had been satisfied.
Rt 2:19Dīxitque eī socrus sua: Ubi hodiē collēgistī, et ubi fēcistī opus?And her mother-in-law said to her: "Where have you gathered today, and where have you worked? Rt 2:19Sit benedictus quī misertus est tuī.Blessed be he who has had pity on you." Rt 2:19Indicāvitque eī apud quem fuisset operāta: et nōmen dīxit virī, quod Booz vocārētur.And she told her with whom she had worked: and she said the name of the man, that he was called Boaz. Rt 2:20Cui respondit Noëmi: Benedictus sit ā Dominō: quoniam eamdem grātiam, quam praebuerat vīvīs, servāvit et mortuīs.Naomi answered her: "May he be blessed by the Lord: since the same kindness which he had shown to the living, he has kept for the dead too." Rt 2:20Rūrsumque ait: Propinquus noster est homō.And again she said: "The man is our kinsman." Rt 2:21Et ait Ruth: Hoc quoque, inquit, praecēpit mihi, ut tamdiū messōribus ejus jungerer, dōnec omnēs segetēs meterentur.And Ruth said: "This too," she said, "he instructed me, that I should keep close to his reapers until all the harvest was reaped." Rt 2:22Cui dīxit socrus: Melius est, fīlia mea, ut cum puellīs ejus exeās ad metendum, nē in aliēnō agrō quispiam resistat tibi.Her mother-in-law said to her: "It is better, my daughter, that you go out with his girls to reap, lest in another's field someone oppose you."
Rt 2:23Jūncta est itaque puellīs Booz: et tamdiū cum eīs messuit, dōnec hordea et trīticum in horreīs conderentur.So she joined herself to the girls of Boaz: and she reaped with them for as long as it took until the barley and wheat were stored in the granaries.