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Ruth · read by Chuck Smith
25 verses, in order. Only the verses Chuck read aloud are shown.
Ruth 1
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Accompanied by her two daughters-in-law, she left the place where she had been living and set out on the road leading back to the land of Judah.Read from KJV · Introducing Naomi and Ruth
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Then Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, "Go back, each of you to your mother's home. May the LORD show you loving devotion, as you have shown to your dead and to me.Read from NKJV · Introducing Naomi and Ruth
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But Naomi replied, "Return home, my daughters. Why would you go with me? Are there still sons in my womb to become your husbands?Read from KJV · Introducing Naomi and Ruth
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Again they wept aloud, and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law goodbye, but Ruth clung to her.Read from KJV · Introducing Naomi and Ruth
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Where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. May the LORD punish me, and ever so severely, if anything but death separates you and me."Read from NKJV · Introducing Naomi and Ruth
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When Naomi saw that Ruth was determined to go with her, she stopped trying to persuade her.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Ruth
Ruth 2
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Just then Boaz arrived from Bethlehem and said to the harvesters, "The LORD be with you." "The LORD bless you," they replied.Read from ESV · (Through the Bible) Ruth
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The foreman answered, "She is the Moabitess who returned with Naomi from the land of Moab.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Ruth
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May the LORD repay your work, and may you receive a rich reward from the LORD, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have taken refuge."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Ruth
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When Ruth got up to glean, Boaz ordered his young men, "Even if she gathers among the sheaves, do not insult her.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Ruth
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Then Ruth the Moabitess said, "He also told me, 'Stay with my young men until they have finished gathering all my harvest.'"Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Ruth
Ruth 3
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One day Ruth's mother-in-law Naomi said to her, "My daughter, should I not seek a resting place for you, that it may be well with you?Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Ruth
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So she went down to the threshing floor and did everything her mother-in-law had instructed her to do.Read from NKJV · (Through the Bible) Ruth
Ruth 4
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Then Boaz took ten of the elders of the city and said, "Sit here," and they did so.Read from ESV · (Through the Bible) Ruth
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And he said to the kinsman-redeemer, "Naomi, who has returned from the land of Moab, is selling the piece of land that belonged to our brother Elimelech.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Ruth
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Now in former times in Israel, concerning the redemption or exchange of property, to make any matter legally binding a man would remove his sandal and give it to the other party, and this was a confirmation in Israel.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Ruth
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So the kinsman-redeemer removed his sandal and said to Boaz, "Buy it for yourself."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Ruth
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At this, Boaz said to the elders and all the people, "You are witnesses today that I am buying from Naomi all that belonged to Elimelech, Chilion, and Mahlon.Read from NKJV · (Through the Bible) Ruth
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Moreover, I have acquired Ruth the Moabitess, Mahlon's widow, as my wife, to raise up the name of the deceased through his inheritance, so that his name will not disappear from among his brothers or from the gate of his home. You are witnesses today."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Ruth
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"We are witnesses," said the elders and all the people at the gate. "May the LORD make the woman entering your home like Rachel and Leah, who together built up the house of Israel. May you be prosperous in Ephrathah and famous in Bethlehem.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Ruth
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And may your house become like the house of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah, because of the offspring the LORD will give you by this young woman."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Ruth
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So Boaz took Ruth, and she became his wife. And when he had relations with her, the LORD enabled her to conceive, and she gave birth to a son.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Ruth
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He will renew your life and sustain you in your old age. For your daughter-in-law, who loves you and is better to you than seven sons, has given him birth."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Ruth
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And Naomi took the child, placed him on her lap, and became a nurse to him.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Ruth