得3:1 路得的婆婆拿俄米对她说：“女儿啊，我不是应当为你找个归宿，使你得到幸福吗？
得3:1 And Naomi, her mother-in-law, said to her, My daughter, am I not to get you a resting-place where you may be in comfort?
得3:2 你常常和他的女佣人在一起的波阿斯不是我们的亲戚吗？他今天晚上要在禾场上簸大麦。
得3:2 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.
得3:3 你洗个澡，抹上香膏，穿上斗篷，就下到禾场去。不过，那个人还没有吃喝完毕，别让他认出你来。
得3:3 So take a bath, and, after rubbing your body with sweet oil, put on your best robe, and go down to the grain-floor; but do not let him see you till he has come to the end of his meal.
得3:4 等到他躺下来，你要弄清楚他所躺的地方，进去掀露他的脚，然后躺下去。他就会告诉你该作什么。”
得3:4 But see to it, when he goes to rest, that you take note of the place where he is sleeping, and go in there, and, uncovering his feet, take your place by him; and he will say what you are to do.
得3:5 路得对她说：“你吩咐的，我就去作。”
得3:5 And she said, I will do all you say.
得3:6 于是，她下到禾场去，照着婆婆吩咐的一切去作。
得3:6 So she went down to the grain-floor and did all her mother-in-law had said to her.
得3:7 波阿斯吃喝完了，心里舒畅，就去躺在麦堆的旁边。路得悄悄地来，掀露他的脚，躺卧下去。
得3:7 Now when Boaz had taken meat and drink, and his heart was glad, he went to take his rest at the end of the mass of grain; then she came softly and, uncovering his feet, went to rest.
得3:8 到了夜半，波阿斯惊醒过来，一翻身就看到一个女子躺在他的脚边，
得3:8 Now in the middle of the night, the man awaking from his sleep in fear, and lifting himself up, saw a woman stretched at his feet.
得3:9 就说：“你是谁？”她回答：“我是你的婢女路得，请用你的衣襟遮盖你的婢女，因为你是我的有买赎权的近亲。”
得3:9 And he said, Who are you? And she answering said, I am your servant Ruth: take your servant as wife, for you are a near relation.
得3:10 波阿斯说：“我女儿，愿你蒙耶和华赐福。你末后表现的爱心比起初更大，因为年轻人无论贫富，你都没有跟从。
得3:10 And he said, May the Lord give you his blessing, my daughter: even better than what you did at the first is this last kind act you have done, in not going after young men, with or without wealth.
得3:11 我女儿，现在你不要怕，你所说的，我一定去作。本城的人都知道你是个贤慧的女人。
得3:11 And now, my daughter, have no fear; I will do for you whatever you say: for it is clear to all my townspeople that you are a woman of virtue.
得3:12 不错，我是你那有买赎权的近亲，可惜还有一个有买赎权的近亲比我更亲。
得3:12 Now it is true that I am a near relation: but there is a relation nearer than I.
得3:13 今晚你就在这里过夜，明早如果他肯尽买赎你的本分，好，就由他来履行；假如他不愿意这样作，我指着永活的耶和华起誓，我一定尽买赎你的本分。你只管躺到天亮吧。”
得3:13 Take your rest here tonight; and in the morning, if he will do for you what it is right for a relation to do, very well, let him do so: but if he will not, then by the living Lord I myself will do so.
得3:14 路得躺在波阿斯脚边直到早晨。因为波阿斯说过不可以让人知道有女人来过禾场，路得就趁天色未明，人们彼此无法辨认的时候就起来。
得3:14 And she took her rest at his feet till the morning: and she got up before it was light enough for one to see another. And he said, Let it not come to anyone's knowledge that the woman came to the grain-floor.
得3:15 他又说：“拿你所披的外衣来，把它打开。”她打开了，他就量了六簸箕大麦，放在她的肩上。路得就进城去。
得3:15 And he said, Take your robe, stretching it out in your hands: and she did so, and he took six measures of grain and put them into it, and gave it her to take: and she went back to the town.
得3:16 到她婆婆那里，婆婆就问：“我女儿，怎样了？”路得就把那人对她所作的一切都告诉了婆婆，
得3:16 And when she came back her mother-in-law said to her, How did it go with you, my daughter? And she gave her an account of all the man had done to her.
得3:17 又说：“他给我这六簸箕大麦，对我说：‘不要空手去见你婆婆。’”
得3:17 And she said, He gave me these six measures of grain, saying, Do not go back to your mother-in-law with nothing in your hands.
得3:18 拿俄米说：“我女儿，你尽管安静等候，直到你知道事情怎样了结，因为那人今天不把事情办妥，绝不歇息。”
得3:18 Then she said, Do nothing now, my daughter, till you see what will come of this; for the man will take no rest till he has put this thing through.