Journeys through Bookland : a new and original plan for reading applied to the world's best literature for children . t keep fast by my young men, untilthey have ended all my harvest. And Naomi said unto Ruth, her daughter-in-law, It is good, my daughter, that thou go out withhis maidens, that they meet thee not in any otherfield. So she kept fast by the maidens of Boaz to gleanunto the end of barley harvest and of wheat har-vest ; and dw elt with her mother-in-law. Ill ^HEN Naomi, her mother-in-law, saidunto Ruth, My daughter, shall I notseek rest for thee, that it may be wellwith thee? And n
Journeys through Bookland : a new and original plan for reading applied to the world's best literature for children . t keep fast by my young men, untilthey have ended all my harvest. And Naomi said unto Ruth, her daughter-in-law, It is good, my daughter, that thou go out withhis maidens, that they meet thee not in any otherfield. So she kept fast by the maidens of Boaz to gleanunto the end of barley harvest and of wheat har-vest ; and dw elt with her mother-in-law. Ill ^HEN Naomi, her mother-in-law, saidunto Ruth, My daughter, shall I notseek rest for thee, that it may be wellwith thee? And now is not Boaz ofour kindred, with whose maidens thouwast? Behold he winnoweth barleyto-night in the threshing floor. Washthyself, therefore, and anoint thee, and put thy rai-ment upon thee and get thee down to the floor, andhe will tell thee what to do. And Ruth said, All that thou sayest unto me,that will I do. Therefore went she down unto the threshing floorand did according to all that her mother-in-law badeher. And Boaz saw her and loved her and askedher, Who art thou? She answered, I am Ruth, thv 150 Ruth And Boaz said, Blessed be thou of the Lord, mydaughter, and fear not, for all the city of my peopledoth know thou art a virtuous woman. And nowit is true that I am thy near kinsman: howbeit, thereis a kinsman nearer than I. Tarry this night, andit shall be in the morning that if he will performunto thee the part of a kinsman, well; let him dothe kinsmans part. But if he will not do the partof a kinsman to thee, then will I do the part ofthe kinsman to thee, as the Lord liveth. Bring nowthe vail that thou hast upon thee and hold it. And when she held it, he measured six measuresof barley, and laid it on her, and she returned intothe city. When now she came to her mother, Naomi asked,Who art thou? And Ruth told her all that theman had said and done, and said, These six meas-ures of barley gave he me, for he said to me, Gonot empty unto thy mother-in-law. Then sa
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