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1 Npuag Oos mus pem nroog, nws mus zaum ntawm qhov rooj. Tus kwv tij uas Npuag Oos hais txawm hla ze ntawd. Npuag Oos hu nws tias : “Koj los ntawm no, koj los zaum.” Ces nws los zaum ntawd. 2 Npuag Oos xaiv kaum leej txwj laus nyob hauv nroog, nws hais rau lawv tias : “Nej zaum ntawm no.” Ces lawv zaum. 3 Npuag Oos hais rau tus kwv tij muaj cai cawm tias : “Daim teb uas yog peb tus kwv tij Es Lis Mes Les daim, mas nyem no Nos Es Mis rov ntawm cov tiaj Muas los txog, nws xav muab muag no. 4 Kuv xav tias yuav tsum hais rau koj tus txheeb ze heev paub. Yog koj yuav, mas cov uas zaum ntawm no thiab cov txwj laus yuav ua tim khawv. Yog koj xav cawm nws mas koj cawm. Yog koj tsis yuav mas koj hais rau kuv paub. Vim tias koj yog thawj tug muaj cai cawm. Kuv tsuas lawv koj qab xwb.”
1 Now Boaz went up to the gate and sat down there. Behold, the near kinsman of whom Boaz spoke came by. Boaz said to him, “Come over here, friend, and sit down!” He came over, and sat down. 2 Boaz took ten men of the elders of the city, and said, “Sit down here,” and they sat down. 3 He said to the near kinsman, “Naomi, who has come back out of the country of Moab, is selling the parcel of land, which was our brother Elimelech’s. 4 I thought I should tell you, saying, ‘Buy it before those who sit here, and before the elders of my people.’ If you will redeem it, redeem it; but if you will not redeem it, then tell me, that I may know. For there is no one to redeem it besides you; and I am after you.”
Ces tus neeg ntawd teb tias : “Yuav cawm los kuj cawm thiab.”
He said, “I will redeem it.”
5 Npuag Oos hais ntxiv tias : “Yog hnub twg koj txais daim teb ntawd ntawm Nos Es Mis lawm, mas koj kuj yuav tsum txais Luv uas yog tus ntxhais Muas. Nws yog peb tus kwv tij tuag lawm tus poj niam, kom xwv peb tus kwv tij lub npe tsis txhob ploj nyob hauv nws tsev neeg.”
5 Then Boaz said, “On the day you buy the field from the hand of Naomi, you must buy it also from Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of the dead, to raise up the name of the dead on his inheritance.”
6 Tus muaj cai cawm teb tias : “Yog li mas kuv yuav cawm tsis tau, rau qhov kuv ntshai tsam tsis zoo rau kuv lub cuab tam. Ces cia koj cawm vim kuv cawm tsis tau.”
6 The near kinsman said, “I can’t redeem it for myself, lest I endanger my own inheritance. Take my right of redemption for yourself; for I can’t redeem it.”
7 Thaum ub, His Xas Lais txoj cai qhia tias thaum yuav sib hloov li ntawd mas ob tug neeg ntawd, ib tug hle nws txhais khau ntxig rau lwm tus. Nkawd ua li ntawd nyob ntawm cov tim khawv xub ntiag. 8 Tus muaj cai cawm thiaj hle nws txhais khau rau Npuag Oos, thiab hais tias : “Koj cawm nws rau koj yuav.”
7 Now this was the custom in former time in Israel concerning redeeming and concerning exchanging, to confirm all things: a man took off his sandal, and gave it to his neighbor; and this was the way of formalizing transactions in Israel. 8 So the near kinsman said to Boaz, “Buy it for yourself,” then he took off his sandal.
9 Npuag Oos hais rau cov txwj laus thiab tsoom sid tias : “Hnub no, nej ua tim khawv tias kuv txais Es Lis Mes Les lub cuab tam thiab Kis Lis Yoos thiab Mas Loos nkawd lub cuab tam ntawm Nos Es Mis txhais tes. 10 Thiab nej ua tim khawv tias kuv txais Luv uas yog Mas Loos tus poj niam los ua kuv poj niam kom xwv tus uas tau tas sim neej lub npe tsis txhob ploj nyob hauv nws cov kwv tij thiab nyob hauv nws lub teb chaws. Hnub no, nej sawv daws nrog kuv ua tim khawv li ntawd.”
9 Boaz said to the elders and to all the people, “You are witnesses today, that I have bought all that was Elimelech’s, and all that was Chilion’s and Mahlon’s, from the hand of Naomi. 10 Moreover, Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, I have purchased to be my wife, to raise up the name of the dead on his inheritance, that the name of the dead may not be cut off from among his brothers and from the gate of his place. You are witnesses today.”
11 Tas tsoom sid nyob ntawm qhov rooj teb tias : “Peb ua tim khawv.” Cov txwj laus teb tias : “Thov kom HUAB TAIS pub rau tus poj niam yuav los hauv koj tsev, kom nws zoo li Las Ses thiab Les As nkawd. Yog nkawd tsa His Xas Lais lub tsev. 12 Koj muaj hwj chim nyob hauv Es Pos Tas. Koj lub npe yuav nto moo nyob hauv Npes Les Hes. Thov kom cov xeeb ntxwv uas HUAB TAIS yuav pub rau koj ua koj tsev neeg xws li Pes Les tsev neeg, Pes Les uas Tas Mas yug rau Yus Das.”
11 All the people who were in the gate, and the elders, said, “We are witnesses. May Yahweh make the woman who has come into your house like Rachel and like Leah, which both built the house of Israel; and treat you worthily in Ephrathah, and be famous in Bethlehem. 12 Let your house be like the house of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah, of the offspring† which Yahweh will give you by this young woman.”
13 Ces Npuag Oos yuav Luv los ua nws poj niam. Thaum nkawd tau los nyob ua ke lawm, HUAB TAIS pub kom Luv xeeb tub, ces Luv yug tau ib tug tub. 14 Cov poj niam tuaj hais rau Nos Es Mis tias : “HUAB TAIS lub siab zoo ! Nws pub kom hnub no ib tug txheeb ze ua kom koj tus tub uas tas sim neej lawm lub npe tsis txhob ploj nyob hauv haiv His Xas Lais. 15 Nws yuav nplij koj thiab yuav yug koj thaum koj laus. Nws niam yog koj tus nyab uas hlub koj tshaj xya leej tub.” 16 Ces Nos Es Mis puag nkaus tus me nyuam rau hauv nws xub ntiag. Thiab yog nws tu tus me nyuam kom hlob. 17 Cov poj niam tis npe rau tus me nyuam. Lawv hais tias : “Ib tug tub yug los rau Nos Es Mis lawm.” Ces lawv tis npe rau tus me nyuam hu ua Os Npes. Os Npes yog Yes Xes txiv, ces Yes Xes yog Das Vis txiv.
13 So Boaz took Ruth and she became his wife; and he went in to her, and Yahweh enabled her to conceive, and she bore a son. 14 The women said to Naomi, “Blessed be Yahweh, who has not left you today without a near kinsman. Let his name be famous in Israel. 15 He shall be to you a restorer of life and sustain you in your old age; for your daughter-in-law, who loves you, who is better to you than seven sons, has given birth to him.” 16 Naomi took the child, laid him in her bosom, and became nurse to him. 17 The women, her neighbors, gave him a name, saying, “A son is born to Naomi”. They named him Obed. He is the father of Jesse, the father of David.
18 Now this is the history of the generations of Perez: Perez became the father of Hezron, 19 and Hezron became the father of Ram, and Ram became the father of Amminadab, 20 and Amminadab became the father of Nahshon, and Nahshon became the father of Salmon, 21 and Salmon became the father of Boaz, and Boaz became the father of Obed, 22 and Obed became the father of Jesse, and Jesse became the father of David.