Sell me food for cash<n id="1" /> so that I can eat and sell me water to drink.<n id="2" /> Just allow me to go through on foot,

You must not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons,

You must supply them generously<n id="1" /> from your flock, your threshing floor, and your winepress &#8211; as the <sc>Lordsc> your God has blessed you, you must give to them.

You must give them the best of your<n id="1" /> grain, new wine, and olive oil, as well as the best of your wool when you shear your flocks.

When you enter the vineyard of your neighbor you may eat as many grapes as you please,<n id="1" /> but you must not take away any in a container.<n id="2" />

Then you are to celebrate the Festival of Weeks<n id="1" /> before the <sc>Lordsc> your God with the voluntary offering<n id="2" /> that you will bring, in proportion to how he<n id="3" /> has blessed you.

<t /><p class="bodytext">You must appoint judges and civil servants<n id="1" /> for each tribe in all your villages<n id="2" /> that the <sc>Lordsc> your God is giving you, and they must judge the people fairly.<n id="3" />

Do not blame<n id="1" /> your people Israel whom you redeemed, O <sc>Lordsc>, and do not hold them accountable for the bloodshed of an innocent person.&#8221;<n id="2" /> Then atonement will be made for the bloodshed.

Then the anger of the <sc>Lordsc> will erupt<n id="1" /> against you and he will close up the sky<n id="2" /> so that it does not rain. The land will not yield its produce, and you will soon be removed<n id="3" /> from the good land that the Lord<n id="4" /> is about to give you.

Be careful lest you entertain the wicked thought that the seventh year, the year of cancellation of debts, has almost arrived, and your attitude<n id="1" /> be wrong toward your impoverished fellow Israelite<n id="2" /> and you do not lend<n id="3" /> him anything; he will cry out to the <sc>Lordsc> against you and you will be regarded as having sinned.<n id="4" />

You must by all means lend<n id="1" /> to him and not be upset by doing it,<n id="2" /> for because of this the <sc>Lordsc> your God will bless you in all your work and in everything you attempt.

You must pay his wage that very day before the sun sets, for he is poor and his life depends on it. Otherwise he will cry out to the <sc>Lordsc> against you, and you will be guilty of sin.p>

<p class="lamhebrew">&#1504; (<i>Nuni>)p> <p class="poetry">Your word<n id="1" /> is a lamp to walk by,p> <p class="poetry">and a light to illumine my path.<n id="2" />p>

And if it seems advisable that I should go also, they will go with me.p>

Laban replied, &#8220;I&#8217;d rather give her to you than to another man.<n id="1" /> Stay with me.&#8221;

Now I&#8217;d like to ask you for just one thing. Please don&#8217;t refuse me.&#8221;<n id="1" /> She said, &#8220;Go ahead and ask.&#8221;<n id="2" />

The king then said to the prophet, &#8220;Come home with me and have something to eat. I&#8217;d like to give a present.&#8221;

Look, a time<n id="1" /> is coming &#8211; and has come &#8211; when you will be scattered, each one to his own home,<n id="2" /> and I will be left alone.<n id="3" /> Yet<n id="4" /> I am not alone, because my Father<n id="5" /> is with me.

I left here full,<n id="1" /> but the <sc>Lordsc> has caused me to return empty-handed.<n id="2" /> Why do you call me &#8216;Naomi,&#8217; seeing that<n id="3" /> the <sc>Lordsc> has opposed me,<n id="4" /> and the Sovereign One<n id="5" /> has caused me to suffer?&#8221;<n id="6" />

<p class="bodytext">Ruth<n id="1" /> knelt before him with her forehead to the ground<n id="2" /> and said to him, &#8220;Why are you so kind<n id="3" /> and so attentive to me,<n id="4" /> even though<n id="5" /> I am a foreigner?&#8221;<n id="6" />