¹ And Jehovah spoke to^▵ Moses, saying,

² Speak to^▵ all the congregation of the sons of Israel, and say to^▵ them, You shall be holy; for I^◦, Jehovah, your God am holy.

³ You shall fear a man^◦ his mother, and his father, and keep My Sabbaths; I^◦ am Jehovah your God.

⁴ Turn^◦ ye not to^▵ vain·​·gods^◦, nor make to yourselves molten gods; I^◦ am Jehovah your God.

⁵ And if^▫ you sacrifice a sacrifice of peace·​·offerings to Jehovah, you shall sacrifice it at your own good·​·pleasure.

⁶ It shall be eaten in the day of your sacrifice, and on the morrow; and what remains until the third day, it shall be burnt·​·up in the fire.

⁷ And if eating it be eaten on^◦ the third day, it^◦ is an abomination^◦; it shall not be well·​·pleasing.

⁸ And he who eats it shall bear his iniquity, for he has profaned that which is holy of Jehovah; and that^◦ soul shall be cut·​·off from his peoples.

⁹ And when you harvest the harvest of your land, thou shalt not complete the corners^▵ of thy field, and thou shalt not collect all the collecting of thy harvest.

¹⁰ And thou shalt not glean thy vineyard, neither shalt thou collect every grape^◦ of thy vineyard; thou shalt leave^◦ them for the afflicted and sojourner; I^◦ am Jehovah your God.

¹¹ You shall not steal, and you shall not deceive^◦, and you shall not do·​·falsely, a man^◦ with his fellow.

¹² And you shall not promise in My name falsely, neither^◦ shalt thou profane the name of thy God; I^◦ am Jehovah.

¹³ Thou shalt not oppress thy companion, neither rob him; the wages for the work of him who is a hireling shall not pass·​·the·​·night with^◦ thee until the morning.

¹⁴ Thou shalt not revile someone deaf, nor put^◦ a stumblingblock before the blind, but shalt fear thy God; I^◦ am Jehovah.

¹⁵ You shall not do perversity in judgment; thou shalt not accept the faces of the poor^*, nor honor the faces of the great; but in justice shalt thou judge thy fellow·​·man.

¹⁶ Thou shalt not go slandering among^◦ thy people; thou shalt not stand against the blood of thy companion: I^◦ am Jehovah.

¹⁷ Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thy heart; reproving thou shalt reprove thy fellow·​·man, and not bear a sin against him.

¹⁸ Thou shalt not avenge, and thou shalt not bear·​·a·​·grudge against the sons of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbor^▵ as^▵ thyself; I^◦ am Jehovah.

¹⁹ You shall keep My statutes. Thou shalt not breed thy beast with two·​·types together; thou shalt not sow thy field with two·​·types of seed: and a garment of two·​·types of cloth·​·mixed together shall not come·​·up on thee.

²⁰ And if^▫ a man^◦ lies with^◦ a woman, lying·​·down with seed, and she^◦ is a handmaid, promised^* to a man^◦, and redeeming^◦ she has not been redeemed^◦, or freedom has not been given to her, there shall be a seeking·​·out; they shall not be put·​·to·​·death, for she was· not ·free.

²¹ And he shall bring his guilt offering to Jehovah, to^▵ the entrance of the Tabernacle of the congregation^◦, even a ram for a guilt offering.

²² And the priest shall make·​·atonement for^▵ him with the ram of the guilt offering before Jehovah for^▵ his sin which he has sinned; and the sin which he has sinned shall be pardoned him.

²³ And when^◦ you shall come into^▵ the land, and shall have planted all kinds of trees for food, then its fruit shall be uncircumcised as a foreskin; three years shall it be uncircumcised for you: it shall not be eaten.

²⁴ But in the fourth year all its fruit shall be holy praises to Jehovah.

²⁵ And in the fifth year you shall eat of its fruit, to add to you its increase; I^◦ am Jehovah your God.

²⁶ You shall not eat on the blood; you shall not foretell, nor be·​·a·​·wizard.

²⁷ You shall not round·​·off^* the corners^▵ of your heads, and thou shalt not mar the corners^▵ of thy beard.

²⁸ And a laceration for the soul you shall not put^◦ in your flesh, and the writing of a tattoo you shall not put^◦ on^◦ you; I^◦ am Jehovah.

²⁹ Do not profane thy daughter, to cause her to·​·commit·​·harlotry; that the land not commit·​·harlotry, and the land become·​·full of crime.

³⁰ You shall keep My Sabbaths, and My sanctuary you shall fear; I^◦ am Jehovah.

³¹ Turn^◦ not to^▵ mediums, and to^▵ soothsayers seek not, to be defiled by them; I^◦ am Jehovah your God.

³² Thou shalt rise·​·up before those with gray·​·hairs, and honor the face of the old, and fear thy God; I^◦ am Jehovah.

³³ And when^◦ a sojourner sojourn with thee in your land, you shall not exploit him.

³⁴ But the sojourner who sojourns with^◦ you shall be to you as the native among you, and thou shalt love him as^▵ thyself; for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt; I^◦ am Jehovah your God.

³⁵ You shall not do perversity in judgment, in measurement, in weight, or^◦ in volume.

³⁶ A just balance, just stones, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall be to you; I^◦ am Jehovah your God, who brought· you ·out of the land of Egypt.

³⁷ And you shall keep all My statutes, and all My judgments, and do them; I^◦ am Jehovah.

¹ And Naomi had a kinsman of her husband's, a mighty man of wealth, of the family of Elimelech; and his name was Boaz.

² And Ruth the Moabitess said unto Naomi, Let me now go to the field, and glean ears of corn after him in whose sight I shall find grace. And she said unto her, go, my daughter.

³ And she went, and came, and gleaned in the field after the reapers: and her hap was to light on a part of the field belonging unto Boaz, who was of the kindred of Elimelech.

⁴ And behold, Boaz came from Bethlehem, and said unto the reapers, The LORD be with you. And they answered him, The LORD bless thee.

⁵ Then said Boaz unto his servant that was set over the reapers, Whose damsel is this?

⁶ And the servant that was set over the reapers answered and said, It is the Moabitish damsel that came back with Naomi out of the country of Moab:

⁷ And she said, I pray you, let me glean and gather after the reapers among the sheaves: so she came, and hath continued even from the morning until now, that she tarried a little in the house.

⁸ Then said Boaz unto Ruth, Hearest thou not, my daughter? Go not to glean in another field, neither Go from hence, but abide here fast by my maidens:

⁹ Let thine eyes be on the field that they do reap, and go thou after them: have I not charged the young men that they shall not touch thee? and when thou art athirst, go unto the vessels, and drink of that which the young men have drawn.

¹⁰ Then she fell on her face, and bowed herself to the ground, and said unto him, Why have I found grace in thine eyes, that thou shouldest take knowledge of me, seeing I am a stranger?

¹¹ And Boaz answered and said unto her, It hath fully been shewed me, all that thou hast done unto thy mother in law since the death of thine husband: and how thou hast left thy father and thy mother, and the land of thy nativity, and art come unto a people which thou knewest not heretofore.

¹² The LORD recompense thy work, and a full reward be given thee of The LORD God of Israel, under whose wings thou art come to trust.

¹³ Then she said, Let me find favour in thy sight, my lord; for that thou hast comforted me, and for that thou hast spoken friendly unto thine handmaid, though I be not like unto one of thine handmaidens.

¹⁴ And Boaz said unto her, At mealtime come thou hither, and eat of the bread, and dip thy morsel in the vinegar. And she sat beside the reapers: and he reached her parched corn, and she did eat, and was sufficed, and left.

¹⁵ And when she was risen up to glean, Boaz commanded his young men, saying, Let her glean even among the sheaves, and reproach her not:

¹⁶ And let fall also some of the handfuls of purpose for her, and leave them, that she may glean them, and rebuke her not.

¹⁷ So she gleaned in the field until even, and beat out that she had gleaned: and it was about an ephah of barley.

¹⁸ And she took it up, and went into the city: and her mother in law saw what she had gleaned: and she brought forth, and gave to her that she had reserved after she was sufficed.

¹⁹ And her mother in law said unto her, Where hast thou gleaned to day? and Where wroughtest thou? blessed be he that did take knowledge of thee. And she shewed her mother in law with whom she had wrought, and said, The man's name with whom I wrought to day is Boaz.

²⁰ And Naomi said unto her daughter in law, Blessed be he of the LORD, who hath not left off his kindness to the living and to the dead. And Naomi said unto her, The man is near of kin unto us, one of our next kinsmen.

²¹ And Ruth the Moabitess said, He said unto me also, Thou shalt keep fast by my young men, until they have ended all my harvest.

²² And Naomi said unto Ruth her daughter in law, It is good, my daughter, that thou go out with his maidens, that they meet thee not in any other field.

²³ So she kept fast by the maidens of Boaz to glean unto the end of barley harvest and of wheat harvest; and dwelt with her mother in law.