Wildebeest analysis examples for:   eng-engoebus   u    February 11, 2023 at 18:31    Script wb_pprint_html.py   by Ulf Hermjakob

7130  RUT 1:1  In the time when the judges ruled, there was once a famine in the land. A man from Bethlehem in Judah took his wife and two sons to live in the territory of Moab.
7131  RUT 1:2  His name was Elimelech and his wife’s was Naomi, and his two sons were Mahlon and Chilion. They were Ephrathites from Bethlehem in Judah. After they had been living in Moab for some time,
7133  RUT 1:4  who married Moabite women named Orpah and Ruth. After they had lived there about ten years,
7134  RUT 1:5  Mahlon and Chilion both died, and Naomi was left alone, without husband or sons.
7135  RUT 1:6  So she set out with her daughters-in-law to return from the land of Moab, for she had heard that the Lord had remembered his people and given them food.
7136  RUT 1:7  As they were setting out together on the journey to Judah,
7137  RUT 1:8  Naomi said to her daughters-in-law, “Go, return both of you to the home of your mother. May the Lord be kind to you as you have been kind to the dead and to me.
7138  RUT 1:9  The Lord grant that each of you may find peace and happiness in the house of a new husband.” Then she kissed them; but they began to weep aloud
7139  RUT 1:10  and said to her, “No, we will return with you to your people.”
7140  RUT 1:11  But Naomi said, “Go back, my daughters. Why should you go with me? Can I still bear sons who might become your husbands?
7141  RUT 1:12  Go back, my daughters, go your own way, because I am too old to have a husband. Even if I should say, ‘I have hope,’ even if I should have a husband tonight and should bear sons,
7142  RUT 1:13  would you wait for them until they were grown up? Would you remain single for them? No, my daughters! My heart grieves for you, for the Lord has sent me adversity.”
7143  RUT 1:14  Then they again wept aloud, and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law goodbye, but Ruth stayed with her.
7144  RUT 1:15  “Look,” said Naomi, “your sister-in-law is going back to her own people and to her own gods. Go along with her!”
7145  RUT 1:16  But Ruth answered, “Do not urge me to leave you or to go back. I will go where you go, and I will stay wherever you stay. Your people will be my people, and your God my God;
7146  RUT 1:17  I will die where you die, and be buried there. May the Lord bring a curse upon me, if anything but death separate you and me.”
7147  RUT 1:18  When Naomi saw that Ruth was determined to go with her, she ceased urging her to return.
7148  RUT 1:19  So they journeyed on until they came to Bethlehem. Their arrival stirred the whole town, and the women said, “Can this be Naomi?”
7150  RUT 1:21  I had plenty when I left, but the Lord has brought me back empty handed. Why should you call me Naomi, now that the Lord has afflicted me, and the Almighty has brought misfortune on me?”
7151  RUT 1:22  So Naomi and Ruth, her Moabite daughter-in-law, returned from Moab. They reached Bethlehem at the beginning of the barley harvest.
7152  RUT 2:1  Now Naomi was related through her husband to a very wealthy man of the family of Elimelech named Boaz.
7153  RUT 2:2  Ruth the Moabite said to Naomi, “Let me now go into the fields and gather leftover grain behind anyone who will allow me.” “Go, my daughter,” she replied.
7155  RUT 2:4  When Boaz came from Bethlehem and said to the reapers, “The Lord be with you,” they answered him, “May the Lord bless you.”
7158  RUT 2:7  She asked to be allowed to glean and gather sheaves after the reapers. So she came and has continued to work until now and she has not rested a moment in the field.”
7159  RUT 2:8  Then Boaz said to Ruth, “Listen, my daughter. Do not go to glean in another field nor leave this place, but stay here with my girls.
7160  RUT 2:9  Watch where the men are reaping and follow the gleaners. I have told the young men not to trouble you. When you are thirsty, go to the jars and drink of that which the young men have drawn.”
7161  RUT 2:10  Then she bowed low and said to him, “Why are you so kind to me, to take interest in me when I am just a foreigner?”
7162  RUT 2:11  Boaz replied, “I have heard what you have done for your mother-in-law since the death of your husband, and how you left your father and mother and your native land to come to a people that you did not know before.
7163  RUT 2:12  May the Lord repay you for what you have done, and may you be fully rewarded by the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to take refuge.”
7164  RUT 2:13  Then she said, “I trust I may please you, my lord, for you have comforted me and spoken kindly to your servant, although I am not really equal to one of your own servants.”
7165  RUT 2:14  At mealtime Boaz said to Ruth, “Come here and eat some of the food and dip your piece of bread in the vinegar.” So she sat beside the reapers, and he passed her some roasted grain. She ate until she was satisfied and had some left.