Rut 1:11
Konteks1:11 But Naomi replied, “Go back home, my daughters! There is no reason for you to return to Judah with me! 1 I am no longer capable of giving birth to sons who might become your husbands! 2
Rut 2:18
Konteks2:18 She carried it back to town, and her mother-in-law saw 3 how much grain 4 she had gathered. Then Ruth 5 gave her the roasted grain she had saved from mealtime. 6
Rut 3:2
Konteks3:2 Now Boaz, with whose female servants you worked, is our close relative. 7 Look, tonight he is winnowing barley at the threshing floor. 8
[1:11] 1 tn Heb “Why would you want to come with me?” Naomi’s rhetorical question expects a negative answer. The phrase “to Judah” is added in the translation for clarification.
[1:11] 2 tn Heb “Do I still have sons in my inner parts that they might become your husbands?” Again Naomi’s rhetorical question expects a negative answer.
[2:18] 3 tc MT vocalizes ותרא as the Qal verb וַתֵּרֶא (vattere’, “and she saw”), consequently of “her mother-in-law” as subject and “what she gathered” as the direct object: “her mother-in-law saw what she gathered.” A few medieval Hebrew
[2:18] 4 tn Heb “that which”; the referent (how much grain) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
[2:18] 5 tn Heb “she”; the referent (Ruth) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
[2:18] 6 tn Heb “and she brought out and gave to her that which she had left over from her being satisfied.”
[3:2] 7 tn Heb “Is not Boaz our close relative, with whose female servants you were?” The idiomatic, negated rhetorical question is equivalent to an affirmation (see Ruth 2:8-9; 3:1) and has thus been translated in the affirmative (so also NCV, NRSV, TEV, CEV, NLT).
[3:2] 8 tn Heb “look, he is winnowing the barley threshing floor tonight.”
[3:2] sn Winnowing the threshed grain involved separating the kernels of grain from the straw and chaff. The grain would be thrown into the air, allowing the wind to separate the kernels (see O. Borowski, Agriculture in Iron Age Israel, 65-66). The threshing floor itself was usually located outside town in a place where the prevailing west wind could be used to advantage (Borowski, 62-63).