Rute 4

1E Boaz subiu à porta da cidade e sentou-se ali: e eis que passava aquele parente do qual havia Boaz falado, e disse-lhe: Ei, fulano, vem aqui e senta-te. E ele veio, e sentou-se. 2Então ele tomou dez homens dos anciãos da cidade, e disse: Sentai-vos aqui. E eles se sentaram. 3Logo disse ao parente: Noemi, que voltou do campo de Moabe, vende uma parte das terras que teve nosso irmão Elimeleque; 4E eu decidi fazê-lo saber a ti, e dizer-te que a tomes diante dos que estão aqui sentados, e diante dos anciãos de meu povo. Se houveres de redimir, redime; e se não quiseres redimir, declara-o a mim para que eu o saiba: porque não há outro que redima a não ser tu, e eu depois de ti. E ele respondeu: Eu redimirei. 5Então replicou Boaz: O mesmo dia que tomares as terras da mão de Noemi, hás de tomar também a Rute moabita, mulher do defunto, para que suscites o nome do morto sobre sua possessão. 6E respondeu o parente: Não posso redimir por minha parte, porque lançaria a perder minha propriedade: redime tu usando de meu direito, porque eu não poderei redimir. 7Havia já de longo tempo este costume em Israel na remissão ou contrato, que para a confirmação de qualquer negócio, o um se tirava o sapato e o dava a seu companheiro: e este era o testemunho em Israel. 8Então o parente disse a Boaz: Toma-o tu. E descalçou seu sapato. 9E Boaz disse aos anciãos e a todo aquele povo: Vós sois hoje testemunhas de que tomo todas as coisas que foram de Elimeleque, e tudo o que foi de Quiliom e de Malom, da mão de Noemi. 10E que também tomo por minha mulher a Rute moabita, mulher de Malom, para suscitar o nome do defunto sobre sua herança, para que o nome do morto não se apague dentre seus irmãos e da porta de seu lugar. Vós sois hoje testemunhas. 11E disseram todos os do povo que estavam à porta com os anciãos: Testemunhas somos. O SENHOR faça à mulher que entra em tua casa como a Raquel e a Lia, as quais duas edificaram a casa de Israel; e tu sejas ilustre em Efrata, e tenhas renome em Belém. 12E da semente que o SENHOR te der desta moça, seja tua casa como a casa de Perez, o que Tamar deu a Judá. 13Então Boaz tomou a Rute, e ela foi sua mulher; e logo que entrou a ela, o SENHOR lhe deu que concebesse e desse à luz um filho. 14E as mulheres diziam a Noemi: Louvado seja o SENHOR, que fez que não te faltasse hoje parente, cujo nome será nomeado em Israel. 15O qual será restaurador de tua alma, e o que sustentará tua velhice; pois que tua nora, a qual te ama e te vale mais que sete filhos, o fez nascer. 16E tomando Noemi o filho, o pôs em seu colo, e foi-lhe sua ama. 17E as vizinhas dizendo, a Noemi nasceu um filho, lhe puseram nome; e chamaram-lhe Obede. Este é pai de Jessé, pai de Davi. 18E estas são as gerações de Perez: Perez gerou a Hezrom; 19E Hezrom gerou a Rão, e Rão gerou a Aminadabe; 20E Aminadabe gerou a Naassom, e Naassom gerou a Salmom; 21E Salmom gerou a Boaz, e Boaz gerou a Obede; 22E Obede gerou a Jessé, e Jessé gerou a Davi.

1Now Boaz went up to the gate, and sat down there. Behold, the near kinsman of whom Boaz spoke came by; to whom he said, “Come over here, friend, and sit down!” He turned aside, and sat down. 2He took ten men of the elders of the city, and said, “Sit down here.” They sat down. 3He said to the near kinsman, “Naomi, who has come back out of the country of Moab, is selling the parcel of land, which was our brother Elimelech’s. 4I thought to disclose it to you, saying, ‘Buy it before those who sit here, and before the elders of my people.’ If you will redeem it, redeem it; but if you will not redeem it, then tell me, that I may know. For there is no one to redeem it besides you; and I am after you.” He said, “I will redeem it.” 5Then Boaz said, “On the day you buy the field from the hand of Naomi, you must buy it also from Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of the dead, to raise up the name of the dead on his inheritance.” 6The near kinsman said, “I can’t redeem it for myself, lest I mar my own inheritance. Take my right of redemption for yourself; for I can’t redeem it.” 7Now this was the custom in former time in Israel concerning redeeming and concerning exchanging, to confirm all things: a man took off his shoe, and gave it to his neighbor; and this was the way of attestation in Israel. 8So the near kinsman said to Boaz, “Buy it for yourself.” He took off his shoe. 9Boaz said to the elders, and to all the people, “You are witnesses this day, that I have bought all that was Elimelech’s, and all that was Chilion’s and Mahlon’s, from the hand of Naomi. 10Moreover Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, I have purchased to be my wife, to raise up the name of the dead on his inheritance, that the name of the dead not be cut off from among his brothers, and from the gate of his place. You are witnesses this day.” 11All the people who were in the gate, and the elders, said, “We are witnesses. May Yahweh make the woman who has come into your house like Rachel and like Leah, which two built the house of Israel; and treat you worthily in Ephrathah, and be famous in Bethlehem. 12Let your house be like the house of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah, of the seed which Yahweh shall give you of this young woman.” 13So Boaz took Ruth, and she became his wife; and he went in to her, and Yahweh gave her conception, and she bore a son. 14The women said to Naomi, “Blessed be Yahweh, who has not left you this day without a near kinsman; and let his name be famous in Israel. 15He shall be to you a restorer of life, and sustain you in your old age, for your daughter-in-law, who loves you, who is better to you than seven sons, has borne him.” 16Naomi took the child, and laid it in her bosom, and became nurse to it. 17The women, her neighbors, gave him a name, saying, “There is a son born to Naomi”; and they named him Obed. He is the father of Jesse, the father of David. 18Now this is the history of the generations of Perez: Perez became the father of Hezron, 19and Hezron became the father of Ram, and Ram became the father of Amminadab, 20and Amminadab became the father of Nahshon, and Nahshon became the father of Salmon, 21and Salmon became the father of Boaz, and Boaz became the father of Obed, 22and Obed became the father of Jesse, and Jesse became the father of David.

1En Boaz ging op in de poort, en zette zich aldaar en ziet, de losser, van welken Boaz gesproken had, ging voorbij; zo zeide hij: Wijk herwaarts, zet u hier, gij, zulk een! En hij week derwaarts, en zette zich. 2En hij nam tien mannen van de oudsten der stad, en zeide: Zet u hier; en zij zetten zich. 3Toen zeide hij tot dien losser: Het stuk lands, dat van onzen broeder Elimelech was, heeft Naomi, die uit der Moabieten land wedergekomen is, verkocht; 4En ik heb gezegd: Ik zal het voor uw oor openbaren, zeggende: Aanvaard het in tegenwoordigheid der inwoners, en in tegenwoordigheid der oudsten mijns volks; zo gij het zult lossen, los het; en zo men het ook niet zou lossen, verklaar het mij, dat ik het wete; want er is niemand, behalve gij, die het losse, en ik na u. Toen zeide hij: Ik zal het lossen. 5Maar Boaz zeide: Ten dage, als gij het land aanvaardt van de hand van Naomi, zo zult gij het ook aanvaarden van Ruth, de Moabietische, de huisvrouw des verstorvenen, om den naam des verstorvenen te verwekken over zijn erfdeel. 6Toen zeide die losser: Ik zal het voor mij niet kunnen lossen, opdat ik mijn erfdeel niet misschien verderve; los gij mijn lossing voor u; want ik zal niet kunnen lossen. 7Nu was dit van ouds een gewoonheid in Israel, bij de lossing en bij de verwisseling, om de ganse zaak te bevestigen, zo trok de man zijn schoen uit en gaf die aan zijn naaste; en dit was tot een getuigenis in Israel. 8Zo zeide de losser tot Boaz: Aanvaard gij het voor u; en hij trok zijn schoen uit. 9Toen zeide Boaz tot de oudsten en al het volk: Gijlieden zijt heden getuigen, dat ik aanvaard heb alles, wat van Elimelech geweest is, en alles, wat van Chiljon en Machlon geweest is, van de hand van Naomi. 10Daartoe aanvaard ik mij ook Ruth, de Moabietische, de huisvrouw van Machlon, tot een vrouw, om den naam des verstorvenen over zijn erfdeel te verwekken, opdat de naam des verstorvenen niet worde uitgeroeid van zijn broederen, en van de poort zijner plaats; gijlieden zijt heden getuigen. 11En al het volk, dat in de poort was, mitsgaders de oudsten zeiden: Wij zijn getuigen; de HEERE make deze vrouw, die in uw huis komt, als Rachel en als Lea, die beiden het huis van Israel gebouwd hebben; en handel kloekelijk in Efratha, en maak uw naam vermaard in Bethlehem! 12En uw huis zij, als het huis van Perez (die Thamar aan Juda baarde), van het zaad, dat de HEERE u geven zal uit deze jonge vrouw. 13Alzo nam Boaz Ruth, en zij werd hem ter vrouwe, en hij ging tot haar in; en de HEERE gaf haar, dat zij zwanger werd en een zoon baarde. 14Toen zeiden de vrouwen tot Naomi: Geloofd zij de HEERE, Die niet heeft nagelaten u heden een losser te geven; en zijn naam worde vermaard in Israel! 15Die zal u zijn tot een verkwikker der ziel, en om uw ouderdom te onderhouden; want uw schoondochter, die u liefheeft, heeft hem gebaard, dewelke u beter is dan zeven zonen. 16En Naomi nam dat kind, en zette het op haar schoot, en werd zijn voedster. 17En de naburinnen gaven hem een naam, zeggende: Aan Naomi is een zoon geboren; en zij noemden zijn naam Obed; deze is de vader van Isai, Davids vader. 18Dit nu zijn de geboorten van Perez: Perez gewon Hezron; 19En Hezron gewon Ram; en Ram gewon Amminadab; 20En Amminadab gewon Nahesson; en Nahesson gewon Salma; 21En Salmon gewon Boaz, en Boaz gewon Obed; 22En Obed gewon Isai; en Isai gewon David.