Tuesday in Season after Pentecost

11Verse 11. As evening approached, he made the camels kneel down near the well outside the town at the time when the women went out to draw water. 12Verse 12. “O LORD, God of my master Abraham,” he prayed, “please grant me success today, and show kindness to my master Abraham. 13Verse 13. Here I am, standing beside the spring, and the daughters of the townspeople are coming out to draw water. 14Verse 14. Now may it happen that the girl to whom I say, ‘Please let down your jar that I may drink,’ and who responds, ‘Drink, and I will water your camels as well’— let her be the one You have appointed for Your servant Isaac. By this I will know that You have shown kindness to my master.” 15Verse 15. Before the servant had finished praying, Rebekah came out with her jar on her shoulder. She was the daughter of Bethuel son of Milcah, the wife of Abraham’s brother Nahor. 16Verse 16. Now the girl was very beautiful, a virgin who had not had relations with any man. She went down to the spring, filled her jar, and came up again. 17Verse 17. So the servant ran to meet her and said, “Please let me have a little water from your jar.” 18Verse 18. “Drink, my lord,” she replied, and she quickly lowered her jar to her hands and gave him a drink. 19Verse 19. After she had given him a drink, she said, “I will also draw water for your camels, until they have had enough to drink.” 20Verse 20. And she quickly emptied her jar into the trough and ran back to the well to draw water, until she had drawn water for all his camels. 21Verse 21. Meanwhile, the man watched her silently to see whether or not the LORD had made his journey a success. 22Verse 22. And after the camels had finished drinking, he took out a gold ring weighing a beka, and two gold bracelets for her wrists weighing ten shekels. 23Verse 23. “Whose daughter are you?” he asked. “Please tell me, is there room in your father’s house for us to spend the night?” 24Verse 24. She replied, “I am the daughter of Bethuel, the son that Milcah bore to Nahor.” 25Verse 25. Then she added, “We have plenty of straw and feed, as well as a place for you to spend the night.” 26Verse 26. Then the man bowed down and worshiped the LORD, 27Verse 27. saying, “Blessed be the LORD, the God of my master Abraham, who has not withheld His kindness and faithfulness from my master. As for me, the LORD has led me on the journey to the house of my master’s relatives.”

14Verse 14. So she lay down at his feet until morning, but she got up before anyone else could recognize her. Then Boaz said, “Do not let it be known that a woman came to the threshing floor.” 15Verse 15. And he told her, “Bring the shawl you are wearing and hold it out.” When she did so, he poured in six measures of barley and placed it on her. Then he went into the city. 16Verse 16. When Ruth returned to her mother-in-law, Naomi asked her, “How did it go, my daughter?” Then Ruth told her all that Boaz had done for her. 17Verse 17. And she said, “He gave me these six measures of barley, for he said, ‘Do not go back to your mother-in-law empty-handed.’” 18Verse 18. “Wait, my daughter,” said Naomi, “until you find out how things go, for he will not rest unless he has resolved the matter today.” 1Verse 1. Meanwhile, Boaz went to the gate and sat down there. Soon the kinsman-redeemer of whom he had spoken came along, and Boaz said, “Come over here, my friend, and sit down.” So he went over and sat down. 2Verse 2. Then Boaz took ten of the elders of the city and said, “Sit here,” and they did so. 3Verse 3. 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. 4Verse 4. I thought I should inform you that you may buy it back in the presence of those seated here and in the presence of the elders of my people. If you want to redeem it, do so. But if you will not redeem it, tell me so I may know, because there is no one but you to redeem it, and I am next after you.” “I will redeem it,” he replied. 5Verse 5. Then Boaz said, “On the day you buy the land from Naomi and also from Ruth the Moabitess, you must also acquire the widow of the deceased in order to raise up the name of the deceased on his inheritance.” 6Verse 6. The kinsman-redeemer replied, “I cannot redeem it myself, or I would jeopardize my own inheritance. Take my right of redemption, because I cannot redeem it.”