WEBVTT NOTE This file was generated by Descript 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.140 Ethan: Welcome to Immerse: the daily bible reading experience. 00:00:03.257 --> 00:00:04.587 Day 100 and 82 00:00:04.991 --> 00:00:11.291 now, there was a wealthy and influential man in Bethlehem named Boaz, who was 00:00:11.291 --> 00:00:14.111 a relative of Naomi's husband, a Lile. 00:00:15.491 --> 00:00:21.851 One day, Ruth the Moabite said to Naomi, let me go out into the harvest fields to 00:00:21.851 --> 00:00:27.581 pick up the stalks of grain left behind by anyone who is kind enough to let me do it. 00:00:28.316 --> 00:00:29.456 Naomi replied. 00:00:30.056 --> 00:00:31.976 All right, my daughter, go ahead. 00:00:32.816 --> 00:00:37.346 So Ruth went out to gather grain behind the harvesters, and as it 00:00:37.346 --> 00:00:43.016 happened, she found herself working in a field that belonged to Boaz, the 00:00:43.016 --> 00:00:45.866 relative of her father-in-law ale. 00:00:46.946 --> 00:00:52.406 While she was there, Boaz arrived from Bethlehem and greeted the harvesters. 00:00:53.156 --> 00:00:54.476 The Lord be with you. 00:00:54.626 --> 00:00:57.356 He said, the Lord bless you. 00:00:57.776 --> 00:00:59.126 The harvesters replied. 00:01:00.146 --> 00:01:04.976 Then Boaz asked his foreman, who is that young woman over there? 00:01:05.606 --> 00:01:06.836 Who does she belong to? 00:01:07.796 --> 00:01:09.326 And the foreman replied. 00:01:09.896 --> 00:01:13.466 She is the young woman from Moab who came back with Naomi. 00:01:14.276 --> 00:01:18.296 She asked me this morning if she could gather grain behind the harvesters. 00:01:18.866 --> 00:01:22.226 She has been hard at work ever since, except for a few 00:01:22.226 --> 00:01:23.666 minutes rest in the shelter. 00:01:24.656 --> 00:01:30.776 Boaz went over and said to Ruth, Listen, my daughter, stay right here with us. 00:01:30.776 --> 00:01:34.586 When you gather grain, don't go to any other fields. 00:01:34.916 --> 00:01:38.036 Stay right behind the young women working in my field. 00:01:38.546 --> 00:01:42.446 See which part of the field they are harvesting, and then follow them. 00:01:43.196 --> 00:01:47.486 I have warned the young men not to treat you roughly, and when you 00:01:47.486 --> 00:01:51.686 are thirsty, help yourself to the water they have drawn from the well. 00:01:52.556 --> 00:01:55.556 Ruth fell at his feet and thanked him warmly. 00:01:56.561 --> 00:01:58.991 What have I done to deserve such kindness? 00:01:59.111 --> 00:01:59.861 She asked. 00:02:00.311 --> 00:02:01.691 I am only a foreigner. 00:02:02.831 --> 00:02:07.991 Yes, I know Boaz replied, but I also know about everything you 00:02:07.996 --> 00:02:11.891 have done for your mother-in-law since the death of your husband. 00:02:12.641 --> 00:02:17.291 I have heard how you left your father and mother and your own land to 00:02:17.291 --> 00:02:19.451 live here among complete strangers. 00:02:20.261 --> 00:02:25.931 May the Lord, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to take refuge, 00:02:26.111 --> 00:02:29.141 reward you fully for what you have done. 00:02:30.251 --> 00:02:35.291 I hope I continue to please you, sir, she replied, you have comforted me 00:02:35.291 --> 00:02:40.091 by speaking so kindly to me, even though I am not one of your workers. 00:02:41.651 --> 00:02:42.641 At mealtime. 00:02:42.731 --> 00:02:47.141 Boaz called to her, come over here and help yourself to some food. 00:02:47.711 --> 00:02:50.021 You can dip your bread in the sour wine. 00:02:50.891 --> 00:02:56.171 So she sat with his harvesters and Boaz gave her some roasted grain to eat. 00:02:56.801 --> 00:03:00.161 She ate all she wanted and still had some leftover. 00:03:01.001 --> 00:03:06.401 When Ruth went back to work again, Boaz ordered his young men let 00:03:06.401 --> 00:03:09.701 her gather grain right among the sheaves without stopping her. 00:03:10.511 --> 00:03:14.981 And pull out some heads of barley from the bundles and drop them on purpose for her. 00:03:15.581 --> 00:03:18.911 Let her pick them up and don't give her a hard time. 00:03:19.781 --> 00:03:24.821 So Ruth gathered barley there all day, and when she beat out the grain that 00:03:24.826 --> 00:03:27.731 evening, it filled an entire basket. 00:03:28.421 --> 00:03:32.321 She carried it back into town and showed it to her mother-in-law. 00:03:33.041 --> 00:03:36.581 Ruth also gave her the roasted grain that was left over from her meal. 00:03:37.766 --> 00:03:40.226 Where did you gather all this grain today? 00:03:40.646 --> 00:03:42.896 Naomi asked, where did you work? 00:03:43.346 --> 00:03:45.746 May the Lord bless the one who helped you. 00:03:46.946 --> 00:03:51.326 So Ruth told her mother-in-law about the man in whose field she had worked. 00:03:51.836 --> 00:03:56.126 She said, the man I worked with today is named Boaz. 00:03:57.116 --> 00:03:58.946 May the Lord bless him. 00:03:59.456 --> 00:04:04.016 Naomi told her daughter-in-law, he is showing his kindness to us 00:04:04.021 --> 00:04:05.816 as well as to your dead husband. 00:04:06.536 --> 00:04:11.906 That man is one of our closest relatives, one of our family redeemers. 00:04:13.136 --> 00:04:18.326 Then Ruth said, what's more Boaz even told me to come back and 00:04:18.326 --> 00:04:22.346 stay with his harvesters until the entire harvest is completed. 00:04:22.976 --> 00:04:23.576 Good. 00:04:24.116 --> 00:04:29.696 Naomi exclaimed do as he said, my daughter, stay with his young women 00:04:29.696 --> 00:04:31.256 right through the whole harvest. 00:04:31.826 --> 00:04:36.146 You might be harassed in other fields, but you'll be safe with him. 00:04:37.181 --> 00:04:42.731 So Ruth worked alongside the women in Boaz's fields and gathered grain with 00:04:42.731 --> 00:04:45.071 them until the end of the barley harvest. 00:04:45.791 --> 00:04:48.821 Then she continued working with them through the wheat harvest in 00:04:48.821 --> 00:04:53.411 early summer, and all the while she lived with her mother-in-law. 00:04:55.001 --> 00:05:01.631 One day, Naomi said to Ruth, my daughter, it's time that I found a permanent home 00:05:01.631 --> 00:05:04.211 for you so that you will be provided for. 00:05:05.216 --> 00:05:10.496 Boaz is a close relative of ours, and he's been very kind by letting you 00:05:10.496 --> 00:05:12.326 gather grain with his young women. 00:05:13.226 --> 00:05:16.556 Tonight he will be winnowing barley at the threshing floor. 00:05:17.276 --> 00:05:22.136 Now do as I tell you, take a bath and put on perfume and 00:05:22.136 --> 00:05:23.936 dress in your nicest clothes. 00:05:24.656 --> 00:05:29.426 Then go to the threshing floor, but don't let Boaz see you until he 00:05:29.426 --> 00:05:31.286 has finished eating and drinking. 00:05:32.381 --> 00:05:35.051 Be sure to notice where he lies down. 00:05:35.921 --> 00:05:39.881 Then go and uncover his feet and lie down there. 00:05:40.661 --> 00:05:42.281 He will tell you what to do. 00:05:43.361 --> 00:05:45.281 I will do everything you say. 00:05:45.461 --> 00:05:46.421 Ruth replied. 00:05:47.321 --> 00:05:51.551 So she went down to the threshing floor that night and followed the 00:05:51.551 --> 00:05:53.261 instructions of her mother-in-law. 00:05:54.191 --> 00:05:58.721 After Boaz had finished eating and drinking and was in good spirits, 00:05:58.991 --> 00:06:03.551 he laid down at the far end of the pile of grain and went to sleep. 00:06:04.421 --> 00:06:11.111 Then Ruth came quietly uncovered his feet and laid down around midnight. 00:06:11.531 --> 00:06:13.991 Boaz suddenly woke up and turned over. 00:06:14.621 --> 00:06:18.161 He was surprised to find a woman lying at his feet. 00:06:18.821 --> 00:06:19.661 Who are you? 00:06:19.841 --> 00:06:20.591 He asked. 00:06:21.761 --> 00:06:23.411 I am your servant, Ruth. 00:06:23.561 --> 00:06:29.411 She replied, spread the corner of your covering over me for you are my family. 00:06:29.411 --> 00:06:29.951 Redeemer. 00:06:30.971 --> 00:06:34.511 The Lord bless you, my daughter Boaz exclaimed. 00:06:35.081 --> 00:06:39.581 You are showing even more family loyalty now than you did before 00:06:40.091 --> 00:06:44.381 for you have not gone after a younger man, whether rich or poor. 00:06:45.161 --> 00:06:47.321 Now, don't worry about a thing my daughter. 00:06:47.951 --> 00:06:54.101 I will do what is necessary for everyone in town knows you are a virtuous woman, 00:06:55.061 --> 00:07:01.241 but while it's true that I am one of your family redeemers, there is another man who 00:07:01.241 --> 00:07:03.941 is more closely related to you than I am. 00:07:04.751 --> 00:07:08.381 Stay here tonight and in the morning I will talk to him. 00:07:09.251 --> 00:07:14.141 If he is willing to redeem you very well, let him marry you. 00:07:14.831 --> 00:07:19.301 But if he is not willing, then as surely as the Lord lives, 00:07:19.631 --> 00:07:21.731 I will redeem you myself. 00:07:22.451 --> 00:07:24.881 Now lie down here until morning. 00:07:25.841 --> 00:07:30.821 So Ruth lay at Boaz's feet until the morning, but she got up 00:07:30.826 --> 00:07:33.701 before it was light enough for people to recognize each other. 00:07:34.561 --> 00:07:40.301 For Boaz had said, no one must know that a woman was here at the threshing floor. 00:07:41.381 --> 00:07:45.581 Then Boaz said to her, Bring your cloak and spread it out. 00:07:46.481 --> 00:07:51.251 He measured six scoops of barley into the cloak and placed it on her back. 00:07:52.031 --> 00:07:53.981 Then he returned to the town. 00:07:55.331 --> 00:07:59.951 When Ruth went back to her mother-in-law, Naomi asked what happened? 00:07:59.956 --> 00:08:06.011 My daughter, Ruth told Naomi everything Boaz had done for her and she added, 00:08:06.551 --> 00:08:10.931 he gave me these six scoops of barley and said, don't go back to 00:08:10.936 --> 00:08:12.671 your mother-in-law empty handed. 00:08:14.006 --> 00:08:20.246 Then Naomi said to her, just be patient, my daughter, until we hear what happens. 00:08:20.966 --> 00:08:24.806 The man won't rest until he has settled things today. 00:08:25.976 --> 00:08:29.276 Boaz went to the town gate and took a seat there. 00:08:29.876 --> 00:08:33.836 Just then, the family Redeemer he had mentioned came by. 00:08:34.316 --> 00:08:38.846 So Boaz called out to him, come over here and sit down friend. 00:08:39.086 --> 00:08:40.256 I want to talk to you. 00:08:41.126 --> 00:08:42.686 So they sat down together. 00:08:43.886 --> 00:08:48.536 Then Boaz called 10 leaders from the town and asked them to sit as 00:08:48.536 --> 00:08:55.286 witnesses, and Boaz said to the family, Redeemer, you know Naomi who came back 00:08:55.291 --> 00:09:01.286 from Moab, she is selling the land that belonged to our relative Aek. 00:09:01.906 --> 00:09:05.876 I thought I should speak to you about it so that you can redeem it if you wish. 00:09:06.716 --> 00:09:11.576 If you want the land, then buy it here In the presence of these witnesses, I. 00:09:12.071 --> 00:09:15.911 But if you don't want it, let me know right away because I 00:09:15.911 --> 00:09:17.471 am next in line to redeem it. 00:09:17.471 --> 00:09:22.721 After you, the man replied, all right, I'll redeem it. 00:09:23.651 --> 00:09:28.721 Then Boaz told him, of course, your purchase of the land from 00:09:28.721 --> 00:09:33.581 Naomi also requires that you marry Ruth, the Moabite widow. 00:09:34.361 --> 00:09:38.201 That way she can have children who will carry on her husband's name 00:09:38.351 --> 00:09:40.331 and keep the land and the family. 00:09:41.156 --> 00:09:42.776 Then I can't redeem it. 00:09:43.256 --> 00:09:48.026 The family redeemer replied, because this might endanger my own estate, 00:09:48.746 --> 00:09:51.476 you redeem the land, I cannot do it. 00:09:52.856 --> 00:09:57.746 Now, in those days, it was the custom in Israel for anyone transferring a 00:09:57.746 --> 00:10:02.426 rite of purchase to remove his sandal and hand it to the other party. 00:10:02.786 --> 00:10:05.396 This publicly validated the transaction. 00:10:06.236 --> 00:10:09.986 So the other family, redeemer drew off his sandal, as he 00:10:09.991 --> 00:10:12.836 said, to Boaz you by the land. 00:10:14.096 --> 00:10:19.916 Then Boaz said to the elders and to the crowd standing around, you are witnesses 00:10:19.916 --> 00:10:27.176 that today I have bought from Naomi all the property of Ale, Killian and Malan. 00:10:27.896 --> 00:10:34.046 And with the land I have acquired Ruth, the Moabite widow of Malan to be my wife. 00:10:34.616 --> 00:10:38.756 This way she can have a son to carry on the family name of her dead 00:10:38.756 --> 00:10:43.736 husband and to inherit the family property here in his hometown. 00:10:44.456 --> 00:10:47.246 You are all witnesses today. 00:10:48.476 --> 00:10:51.356 Then the elders and all the people standing in the gate 00:10:51.361 --> 00:10:53.996 replied, we are witnesses. 00:10:54.476 --> 00:10:59.906 May the Lord make this woman who is coming into your home like Rachel and Leah from 00:10:59.906 --> 00:11:02.606 whom all the nation of Israel descend it. 00:11:03.371 --> 00:11:09.611 May you prosper in Africa and be famous in Bethlehem, and may the Lord give 00:11:09.611 --> 00:11:15.071 you descendants by this young woman who will be like those of our ancestor 00:11:15.101 --> 00:11:17.681 Pire, the son of Tamar and Judah. 00:11:19.061 --> 00:11:23.591 So Boaz took Ruth into his home and she became his wife. 00:11:24.521 --> 00:11:28.691 When he slept with her, the Lord enabled her to become pregnant, 00:11:28.721 --> 00:11:30.731 and she gave birth to a son. 00:11:32.006 --> 00:11:36.836 Then the women of the town said to Naomi, praise the Lord, who has now 00:11:36.836 --> 00:11:39.056 provided a redeemer for your family. 00:11:39.656 --> 00:11:42.176 May this child be famous in Israel. 00:11:42.656 --> 00:11:46.466 May he restore your youth and care for you in your old age. 00:11:47.066 --> 00:11:51.146 For he is the son of your daughter-in-law who loves you and has 00:11:51.146 --> 00:11:53.606 been better to you than seven sons. 00:11:54.956 --> 00:11:58.016 Naomi took the baby and cuddled him to her breast. 00:11:58.646 --> 00:12:04.406 And she cared for him as if he were her own the neighbor, women said. 00:12:04.946 --> 00:12:10.916 Now at last, Naomi has a son again, and they named him Obed. 00:12:11.936 --> 00:12:16.046 He became the father of Jesse and the grandfather of David. 00:12:18.236 --> 00:12:22.136 This is the genealogical record of their ancestor Pires. 00:12:23.906 --> 00:12:25.976 Pires was the father of Hezron. 00:12:27.191 --> 00:12:28.991 Hezron was the father of Ram. 00:12:29.921 --> 00:12:32.381 Ram was the father of Aada. 00:12:33.101 --> 00:12:35.191 Aada was the father of Naan. 00:12:36.461 --> 00:12:38.171 Naan was the father of Salman. 00:12:38.921 --> 00:12:41.111 Salman was the father of Boaz. 00:12:41.921 --> 00:12:44.111 Boaz was the father of Obed. 00:12:45.101 --> 00:12:47.201 Obed was the father of Jesse. 00:12:47.921 --> 00:12:50.561 Jesse was the father of David. 00:12:55.046 --> 00:12:57.926 This concludes today's Immerse Reading experience. 00:12:58.046 --> 00:12:59.276 Thank you for joining us.