Burnt Offerings X

Ruth

Let her glean even among the sheaves,

and reproach - her not:

And let fall also - some of the handfuls of purpose for her,

and - leave them,

that she may glean them,

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suf-fice

suf-ficed, suf-fic-ing, suf-fic-es.v. intr. 1. To meet present needs or requirements; be sufficient:

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wrought

(rot)v. A past tense and a past participle of work.adj. 1. Put together; created: a carefully wrought plan. 2. Shaped by hammering with tools. Used chiefly of metals or metalwork. 3. Made delicately or elaborately.

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And she - took it up,

and went into the city:

and her mother in law saw what she had gleaned:

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And when Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite,

prince of the country,

saw her,

he took her,

and lay with her,

and defiled her.

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And the sons of Jacob came out of the field when they heard it:

and the men were grieved,

and they were very wroth,

because he had wrought folly in Israel in lying with Jacob's daughter;

which thing ought not to be done.

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and she brought forth,

and gave to her that she had reserved - after she was sufficed.

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And her mother in law said unto her,

Where hast thou gleaned today?

and where wroughtest thou?

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blessed be he that did take knowledge of thee.

And she shewed her mother in law with whom she had wrought,

and said,

The man's name with whom I wrought today is Boaz.

And Naomi said

unto her daughter in law,

Blessed be he of the Lord, who hath not left off his kindness to the living and to the dead.

And Naomi said unto her,

The man is near of kin unto us,

one of our next kinsmen.

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