H9002–/וְ–v

Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, Go, return each of you to her mother's house: Yahweh deal kindly with you, as you have dealt with the dead, and with me.

וְעִמָּדִֽי׃ (וְ) ve. “and”

Yahweh grant you that you may find rest, each of you in the house of her husband. Then she kissed them, and they lifted up their voice, and wept.

וּמְצֶ֣אןָ (וּ) u. “and”

Turn again, my daughters, go your way; for I am too old to have a husband. If I should say, I have hope, if I should even have a husband tonight, and should also bear sons;

וְגַ֖ם (וְ) ve. “and”

They lifted up their voice, and wept again: and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth joined with her.

וְר֖וּת (וְ) ve. “and”

She said, Behold, your sister-in-law is gone back to her people, and to her god: return you after your sister-in-law.

וְאֶל־ (וְ) ve. “and”

Ruth said, "Don't entreat me to leave you, and to return from following after you, for where you go, I will go; and where you lodge, I will lodge; your people shall be my people, and your God my God;

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

where you die, will I die, and there will I be buried: Yahweh do so to me, and more also, if anything but death part you and me."

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

I went out full, and Yahweh has brought me home again empty; why do you call me Naomi, seeing Yahweh has testified against me, and the Almighty has afflicted me?"

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

So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter-in-law, with her, who returned out of the country of Moab: and they came to Bethlehem in the beginning of barley harvest.

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

Naomi had a kinsman of her husband's, a mighty man of wealth, of the family of Elimelech, and his name was Boaz.

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

Ruth the Moabitess said to Naomi, Let me now go to the field, and glean among the ears of grain after him in whose sight I shall find favor. She said to her, Go, my daughter.

וַאֲלַקֳטָּ֣ה (וַ) va. “so”

Behold, Boaz came from Bethlehem, and said to the reapers, Yahweh be with you. They answered him, Yahweh bless you.

וְהִנֵּה־ (וְ) ve. “and”

She said, Please let me glean and gather after the reapers among the sheaves. So she came, and has continued even from the morning until now, except that she stayed a little in the house.

וְעַד־ (וְ) ve. “and”

Then said Boaz to Ruth, Don't you hear, my daughter? Don't go to glean in another field, neither pass from hence, but abide here fast by my maidens.

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

Then she fell on her face, and bowed herself to the ground, and said to him, Why have I found favor in your sight, that you should take knowledge of me, seeing I am a foreigner?

וְאָּנֹכִ֖י (וְ) ve. “and”

Boaz answered her, It has fully been shown me, all that you have done to your mother-in-law since the death of your husband; and how you have left your father and your mother, and the land of your birth, and have come to a people that you didn't know before.

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

Yahweh recompense your work, and a full reward be given you of Yahweh, the God of Israel, under whose wings you are come to take refuge.

וּתְהִ֨י (וּ) u. “and”

Then she said, Let me find favor in your sight, my lord, because you have comforted me, and because you have spoken kindly to your handmaid, though I am not as one of your handmaidens.

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

When she was risen up to glean, Boaz commanded his young men, saying, Let her glean even among the sheaves, and don't reproach her.

וְלֹ֥א (וְ) ve. “and”

Also pull out some for her from the bundles, and leave it, and let her glean, and don't rebuke her.

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

Her mother-in-law said to her, Where have you gleaned today? and where have you worked? blessed be he who did take knowledge of you. She shown her mother-in-law with whom she had worked, and said, The man's name with whom I worked today is Boaz.

וְאָ֣נָה (וְ) ve. “and”

Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, Blessed be he of Yahweh, who has not left off his kindness to the living and to the dead. Naomi said to her, The man is a close relative to us, one of our near kinsmen.

וְאֶת־ (וְ) ve. “and”

Naomi said to Ruth her daughter-in-law, It is good, my daughter, that you go out with his maidens, and that they not meet you in any other field.

וְלֹ֥א (וְ) ve. “and”

So she kept fast by the maidens of Boaz, to glean to the end of barley harvest and of wheat harvest; and she lived with her mother-in-law.

וּקְצִ֣יר (וּ) u. “and”

Now isn't Boaz our kinsman, with whose maidens you were? Behold, he winnows barley tonight in the threshing floor.

וְעַתָּ֗ה (וְ) ve. “and”