Ruth 4:12

4:12 May your family ¹  become like the family of Perez ²  – whom Tamar bore to Judah – through the descendants ³  the Lord gives you by this young woman.”

Ruth 2:16

2:16 Make sure you pull out ⁴  ears of grain for her and drop them so she can gather them up. Don’t tell her not to!” ⁵ 

Ruth 1:7

Ruth Returns with Naomi

1:7 Now as she and her two daughters-in-law began to leave the place where she had been living to return to the land of Judah, ⁶ 

Ruth 3:10

3:10 He said, “May you be rewarded ⁷  by the Lord, my dear! ⁸  This act of devotion ⁹  is greater than what you did before. ¹⁰  For you have not sought to marry ¹¹  one of the young men, whether rich or poor. ¹² 

Ruth 2:14

2:14 Later during the mealtime Boaz said to her, “Come here and have ¹³  some food! Dip your bread ¹⁴  in the vinegar!” So she sat down beside the harvesters. Then he handed ¹⁵  her some roasted grain. She ate until she was full and saved the rest. ¹⁶ 

[4:12]  ¹ tn Heb “your house” (so NAB, NASB, NRSV).

[4:12]  ² tn Heb “and may your house be like the house of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah, from the offspring whom the Lord gives to you from this young woman.”

[4:12]  ³ tn Heb “from the seed” (KJV, ASV both similar); NASB, NIV “through the offspring”; NRSV “through the children.”

[2:16]  ⁴ tn The infinitive absolute precedes the finite verb for emphasis. Here שָׁלַל (shalal, “pull out”) is a homonym of the more common Hebrew verb meaning “to plunder.” An Arabic cognate is used of drawing a sword out of a scabbard (see BDB 1021 s.v.).

[2:16]  ⁵ tn Heb “do not rebuke her” (so NASB, NRSV); CEV “don’t speak harshly to her”; NLT “don’t give her a hard time.”

[1:7]  ⁷ tn Heb “and she went out from the place she had been, and her two daughters-in-law with her, and they went on the way to return to the land of Judah.”

[3:10]  ¹⁰ tn Or “blessed” (so NASB, NRSV).

[3:10]  ¹¹ tn Heb “my daughter.” This form of address is a mild form of endearment, perhaps merely rhetorical. A few English versions omit it entirely (e.g., TEV, CEV). The same expression occurs in v. 11.

[3:10]  ¹² tn Heb “latter [act of] devotion”; NRSV “this last instance of your loyalty.”

[3:10]  ¹³ tn Heb “you have made the latter act of devotion better than the former”; NIV “than that which you showed earlier.”

[3:10]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “by not going after the young men” (NASB similar); TEV “You might have gone looking for a young man.”

[3:10]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “whether poor or rich” (so KJV, NAB, NASB, NRSV); the more common English idiom reverses the order (“rich or poor”; cf. NIV, NCV, TEV, CEV, NLT).

[2:14]  ¹³ tn Heb “eat” (so KJV, NRSV).

[2:14]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “your portion”; NRSV “your morsel.”

[2:14]  ¹⁵ tn The Hebrew verb צָבַט (tsavat) occurs only here in the OT. Cf. KJV, ASV “he reached her”; NASB “he served her”; NIV “he offered her”; NRSV “he heaped up for her.” For discussion of its meaning, including the etymological evidence, see BDB 840 s.v.; R. L. Hubbard, Jr., Ruth (NICOT), 174; and F. W. Bush, Ruth, Esther (WBC), 125-26.

[2:14]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “and she ate and she was satisfied and she had some left over” (NASB similar).