{"product_id":"2940148923084","title":"The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 08: Ruth","description":"THE BOOK OF RUTH\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis Book is called RUTH, from the name of the person whose history is\u003cbr\u003ehere recorded: who, being a Gentile, became a convert to the true faith,\u003cbr\u003eand marrying Booz, the great-grandfather of David, was one of those from\u003cbr\u003ewhom Christ sprung according to the flesh, and an illustrious figure of\u003cbr\u003ethe Gentile church. It is thought this book was written by the prophet\u003cbr\u003eSamuel.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRuth Chapter 1\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eElimelech of Bethlehem going with his wife Noemi, and two sons, into the\u003cbr\u003eland of Moab, dieth there. His sons marry wives of that country and die\u003cbr\u003ewithout issue. Noemi returneth home with her daughter in law Ruth, who\u003cbr\u003erefuseth to part with her.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:1. In the days of the judges, when the judges ruled, there came a\u003cbr\u003efamine in the land.  And a certain man of Bethlehem Juda, went to\u003cbr\u003esojourn in the land of Moab with his wife and his two sons.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:2. He was named Elimelech, and his wife Noemi: and his two sons, the\u003cbr\u003eone Mahalon, and the other Chelion, Ephrathites of Bethlehem Juda. And\u003cbr\u003eentering into the country of Moab, they abode there.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:3. And Elimelech the husband of Noemi died: and she remained with her\u003cbr\u003esons.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:4. And they took wives of the women of Moab, of which one was called\u003cbr\u003eOrpha, and the other Ruth.  And they dwelt their ten years,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:5. And they both died, to wit, Mahalon and Chelion: and the woman was\u003cbr\u003eleft alone, having lost both her sons and her husband.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:6. And she arose to go from the land of Moab to her own country, with\u003cbr\u003eboth her daughters in law: for she had heard that the Lord had looked\u003cbr\u003eupon his people, and had given them food.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:7. Wherefore she went forth out of the place of her sojournment, with\u003cbr\u003eboth her daughters in law: and being now in the way to return into the\u003cbr\u003eland of Juda,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:8. She said to them: Go ye home to your mothers, the Lord deal\u003cbr\u003emercifully with you, as you have dealt with the dead and with me.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:9. May he grant you to find rest in the houses of the husbands whom\u003cbr\u003eyou shall take. And she kissed them. And they lifted up their voice, and\u003cbr\u003ebegan to weep,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:10. And to say: We will go on with thee to thy people.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:11. But she answered them: Return, my daughters: why come ye with me?\u003cbr\u003ehave I any more sons in my womb, that you may hope for husbands of me?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:12. Return again, my daughters, and go your ways: for I am now spent\u003cbr\u003ewith age, and not fit for wedlock. Although I might conceive this night,\u003cbr\u003eand bear children,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:13. If you would wait till they were grown up, and come to man's\u003cbr\u003eestate, you would be old women before you marry. Do not so, my\u003cbr\u003edaughters, I beseech you: for I am grieved the more for your distress,\u003cbr\u003eand the hand of the Lord is gone out against me.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:14. And they lifted up their voice, and began to weep again: Orpha\u003cbr\u003ekissed her mother in law, and returned: Ruth stuck close to her mother\u003cbr\u003ein law.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:15. And Noemi said to her: Behold thy kinswoman is returned to her\u003cbr\u003epeople, and to her gods, go thou with her.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo her gods, etc... Noemi did not mean to persuade Ruth to return to the\u003cbr\u003efalse gods she had formerly worshipped: but by this manner of speech,\u003cbr\u003einsinuated to her, that if she would go with her, she must renounce her\u003cbr\u003efalse gods and return to the Lord the God of Israel.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:16. She answered: Be not against me, to desire that I should leave\u003cbr\u003ethee and depart: for whithersoever thou shalt go, I will go: and where\u003cbr\u003ethou shalt dwell, I also will dwell. Thy people shall be my people, and\u003cbr\u003ethy God my God.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:17. The land that shall receive thee dying, in the same will I die:\u003cbr\u003eand there will I be buried. The Lord do so and so to me, and add more\u003cbr\u003ealso, if aught but death part me and thee.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Lord do so and so, etc... A form of swearing usual in the history of\u003cbr\u003ethe Old Testament, by which the person wished such and such evils to\u003cbr\u003efall upon them, if they did not do what they said.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:18. Then Noemi seeing that Ruth was steadfastly determined to go with\u003cbr\u003eher, would not be against it, nor persuade her any more to return to her\u003cbr\u003efriends:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:l9. So they went together, and came to Bethlehem.  And when they were\u003cbr\u003ecome into the city, the report was quickly spread among all: and the\u003cbr\u003ewomen said: This is that Noemi.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:20. But she said to them: Call me not Noemi (that is, beautiful,) but\u003cbr\u003ecall me Mara (that is, bitter), for the Almighty hath quite filled me\u003cbr\u003ewith bitterness.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:21. I went out full and the Lord hath brought me back empty. Why then\u003cbr\u003edo you call me Noemi, whom the Lord hath humbled, and the Almighty hath\u003cbr\u003eafflicted?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:22. So Noemi came with Ruth, the Moabitess, her daughter in law, from\u003cbr\u003ethe land of her sojournment: and returned into Bethlehem, in the\u003cbr\u003ebeginning of the barley harvest.","brand":"Lost Leaf Publications","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47111680164080,"sku":"2940148923084","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940148923084_p0.jpg?v=1763710624","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940148923084","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}