H9002–/וְ–v

And Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, Go back to your mothers' houses: may the Lord be good to you as you have been good to the dead and to me:

וְעִמָּדִֽי׃ (וְ) ve. “and”

May the Lord give you rest in the houses of your husbands. Then she gave them a kiss; and they were weeping bitterly.

וּמְצֶ֣אןָ (וּ) u. “and”

Go back, my daughters, and go on your way; I am so old now that I may not have another husband. If I said, I have hopes, if I had a husband tonight, and might have sons,

וְגַ֖ם (וְ) ve. “and”

Then again they were weeping; and Orpah gave her mother-in-law a kiss, but Ruth would not be parted from her.

וְר֖וּת (וְ) ve. “and”

And Naomi said, See, your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and to her gods: go back after your sister-in-law.

וְאֶל־ (וְ) ve. “and”

But Ruth said, Give up requesting me to go away from you, or to go back without you: for where you go I will go; and where you take your rest I will take my rest; your people will be my people, and your God my God.

וּבַאֲשֶׁ֤ר (וּ) u. “and”וֵאלֹהַ֖יִךְ (וֵ) ve. “and”

Wherever death comes to you, death will come to me, and there will be my last resting-place; the Lord do so to me and more if we are parted by anything but death.

וְשָׁ֖ם (וְ) ve. “and”וְכֹ֣ה (וְ) ve. “and”וּבֵינֵֽךְ׃ (וּ) u. “and”

I went out full, and the Lord has sent me back again with nothing; why do you give me the name Naomi, seeing that the Lord has given witness against me, and the Ruler of all has sent sorrow on me?

וְרֵיקָ֖ם (וְ) ve. “and”וַֽיהוָה֙ (וַֽ) va. “and”וְשַׁדַּ֖י (וְ) ve. “and”

So Naomi came back out of the country of Moab, and Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter-in-law, with her; and they came to Beth-lehem in the first days of the grain-cutting.

וְר֨וּת (וְ) ve. “and”וְהֵ֗מָּה (וְ) ve. “and”

And Naomi had a relation of her husband, a man of wealth, of the family of Elimelech; and his name was Boaz.

וּֽלְנָעֳמִ֞י (וּֽ) u. “and”וּשְׁמ֖וֹ (וּ) u. “and”

And Ruth the Moabitess said to Naomi, Now let me go into the field and take up the heads of grain after him in whose eyes I may have grace. And she said to her, Go, my daughter.

וַאֲלַקֳטָּ֣ה (וַ) va. “so”

And Boaz came from Beth-lehem, and said to the grain-cutters, The Lord be with you. And they made answer, The Lord give you his blessing.

וְהִנֵּה־ (וְ) ve. “and”

And she said to me, Let me come into the grain-field and take up the grain after the cutters. So she came, and has been here from morning till now, without resting even for a minute.

וְעַד־ (וְ) ve. “and”

Then said Boaz to Ruth, Give ear to me, my daughter: do not go to take up the grain in another field, or go away from here, but keep here by my young women:

וְגַ֛ם (וְ) ve. “and”וְכֹ֥ה (וְ) ve. “and”

Then she went down on her face to the earth, and said to him, Why have I grace in your eyes, that you give attention to me, seeing I am from a strange people?

וְאָּנֹכִ֖י (וְ) ve. “and”

And Boaz answering said to her, I have had news of everything you have done for your mother-in-law after the death of your husband; how you went away from your father and mother and the land of your birth, and came to a people who are strange to you.

וְאִמֵּ֗ךְ (וְ) ve. “and”וְאֶ֙רֶץ֙ (וְ) ve. “and”

The Lord give you a reward for what you have done, and may a full reward be given to you by the Lord, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to take cover.

וּתְהִ֨י (וּ) u. “and”

Then she said, May I have grace in your eyes, my lord, for you have given me comfort, and you have said kind words to your servant, though I am not like one of your servants.

וְכִ֥י (וְ) ve. “and”וְאָנֹכִי֙ (וְ) ve. “and”

And when she got ready to take up the grain, Boaz gave his young men orders, saying, Let her take it even from among the cut grain, and say nothing to her.

וְלֹ֥א (וְ) ve. “and”

And let some heads of grain be pulled out of what has been corded up, and dropped for her to take, and let no sharp word be said to her.

וְגַ֛ם (וְ) ve. “and”וְלֹ֥א (וְ) ve. “and”

And her mother-in-law said to her, Where did you take up the grain today, and where were you working? May a blessing be on him who gave such attention to you. And she gave her mother-in-law an account of where she had been working, and said, The name of

וְאָ֣נָה (וְ) ve. “and”

And Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, May the blessing of the Lord, who has at all times been kind to the living and to the dead, be on him. And Naomi said to her, The man is of our family, one of our near relations.

וְאֶת־ (וְ) ve. “and”

And Naomi said to Ruth, her daughter-in-law, It is better, my daughter, for you to go out with his servant-girls, so that no danger may come to you in another field.

וְלֹ֥א (וְ) ve. “and”

So she kept near the servant-girls of Boaz to take up the grain till the cutting of the early grain and the cutting of the late grain were ended; and she went on living with her mother-in-law.

וּקְצִ֣יר (וּ) u. “and”

And now, is there not Boaz, our relation, with whose young women you were? See, tonight he is separating the grain from the waste in his grain-floor.

וְעַתָּ֗ה (וְ) ve. “and”