今日读经

拿俄米为路得打算

¹路得的婆婆拿俄米对她说：“女儿啊，我不当为你找个安身之处，使你享福吗？One day Ruth’s mother-in-law Naomi said to her, “My daughter, should I not seek a resting place for you, that it may be well with you?

²你与波阿斯的使女常在一处，波阿斯不是我们的亲族吗？他今夜在场上簸大麦；Now is not Boaz, with whose servant girls you have been working, a relative of ours? In fact, tonight he is winnowing barley on the threshing floor.

³你要沐浴抹膏，换上衣服，下到场上，却不要使那人认出你来。你等他吃喝完了，Therefore wash yourself, put on perfume, and wear your best clothes. Go down to the threshing floor, but do not let the man know you are there until he has finished eating and drinking.

⁴到他睡的时候，你看准他睡的地方，就进去掀开他脚上的被，躺卧在那里，他必告诉你所当做的事。”When he lies down, note the place where he lies. Then go in and uncover his feet, and lie down, and he will explain to you what you should do.”

⁵路得说：“凡你所吩咐的，我必遵行。”“I will do everything you say,” Ruth answered.

路得在禾场上

⁶路得就下到场上，照她婆婆所吩咐她的而行。So she went down to the threshing floor and did everything her mother-in-law had instructed her to do.

⁷波阿斯吃喝完了，心里欢畅，就去睡在麦堆旁边。路得便悄悄地来掀开他脚上的被，躺卧在那里。After Boaz had finished eating and drinking and was in good spirits, he went to lie down at the end of the heap of grain. Then Ruth went in secretly, uncovered his feet, and lay down.

⁸到了夜半，那人忽然惊醒，翻过身来，不料有女子躺在他的脚下。At midnight, Boaz was startled, turned over, and there lying at his feet was a woman!

⁹他就说：“你是谁？”回答说：“我是你的婢女路得。求你用你的衣襟遮盖我，因为你是我一个至近的亲属。”“Who are you?” he asked. “I am your servant Ruth,” she replied. “Spread the corner of your garment over me, for you are a kinsman-redeemer.”

¹⁰波阿斯说：“女儿啊，愿你蒙耶和华赐福。你末后的恩比先前更大；因为少年人无论贫富，你都没有跟从。Then Boaz said, “May the LORD bless you, my daughter. You have shown more kindness now than before, because you have not run after the younger men, whether rich or poor.

¹¹女儿啊，现在不要惧怕，凡你所说的，我必照着行；我本城的人都知道你是个贤德的女子。And now do not be afraid, my daughter. I will do for you whatever you request, since all my fellow townspeople know that you are a woman of noble character.

¹²我实在是你一个至近的亲属，只是还有一个人比我更近。Yes, it is true that I am a kinsman-redeemer, but there is a redeemer nearer than I.

¹³你今夜在这里住宿，明早他若肯为你尽亲属的本分，就由他吧！倘若不肯，我指着永生的耶和华起誓，我必为你尽了本分，你只管躺到天亮。”Stay here tonight, and in the morning, if he wants to redeem you, good. Let him redeem you. But if he does not want to redeem you, as surely as the LORD lives, I will. Now lie here until morning.”

波阿斯送她六簸箕大麦

¹⁴路得便在他脚下躺到天快亮，人彼此不能辨认的时候就起来了。波阿斯说：“不可使人知道有女子到场上来”；So she lay down at his feet until morning, but she got up before anyone else could recognize her. Then Boaz said, “Do not let it be known that a woman came to the threshing floor.”

¹⁵又对路得说：“打开你所披的外衣。”她打开了，波阿斯就撮了六簸箕大麦，帮她扛在肩上，她便进城去了。And he told her, “Bring the shawl you are wearing and hold it out.” When she did so, he poured in six measures of barley and placed it on her. Then he went into the city.

¹⁶路得回到婆婆那里，婆婆说：“女儿啊，怎么样了？”路得就将那人向她所行的述说了一遍，When Ruth returned to her mother-in-law, Naomi asked her, “How did it go, my daughter?” Then Ruth told her all that Boaz had done for her.

¹⁷又说：“那人给了我六簸箕大麦，对我说：‘你不可空手回去见你的婆婆。’”And she said, “He gave me these six measures of barley, for he said, ‘Do not go back to your mother-in-law empty-handed.’”

¹⁸婆婆说：“女儿啊，你只管安坐等候，看这事怎样成就，因为那人今日不办成这事必不休息。”“Wait, my daughter,” said Naomi, “until you find out how things go, for he will not rest unless he has resolved the matter today.”

城门口的交涉

¹波阿斯到了城门，坐在那里，恰巧波阿斯所说的那至近的亲属经过。波阿斯说：“某人哪，你来坐在这里。”他就来坐下。Meanwhile, Boaz went to the gate and sat down there. Soon the kinsman-redeemer of whom he had spoken came along, and Boaz said, “Come over here, my friend, and sit down.” So he went over and sat down.

²波阿斯又从本城的长老中拣选了十人，对他们说：“请你们坐在这里。”他们就都坐下。Then Boaz took ten of the elders of the city and said, “Sit here,” and they did so.

³波阿斯对那至近的亲属说：“从摩押地回来的拿俄米，现在要卖我们族兄以利米勒的那块地；And he said to the kinsman-redeemer, “Naomi, who has returned from the land of Moab, is selling the piece of land that belonged to our brother Elimelech.

⁴我想当赎那块地的是你，其次是我，以外再没有别人了。你可以在这里的人面前和我本国的长老面前说明，你若肯赎就赎，若不肯赎就告诉我。”那人回答说：“我肯赎。”I thought I should inform you that you may buy it back in the presence of those seated here and in the presence of the elders of my people. If you want to redeem it, do so. But if you will not redeem it, tell me so I may know, because there is no one but you to redeem it, and I am next after you.” “I will redeem it,” he replied.

⁵波阿斯说：“你从拿俄米手中买这地的时候，也当娶（原文是买；十节同）死人的妻摩押女子路得，使死人在产业上存留他的名。”Then Boaz said, “On the day you buy the land from Naomi and also from Ruth the Moabitess, you must also acquire the widow of the deceased in order to raise up the name of the deceased on his inheritance.”

⁶那人说：“这样我就不能赎了，恐怕于我的产业有碍。你可以赎我所当赎的，我不能赎了。”The kinsman-redeemer replied, “I cannot redeem it myself, or I would jeopardize my own inheritance. Take my right of redemption, because I cannot redeem it.”

脱鞋为证

⁷从前，在以色列中要定夺什么事，或赎回，或交易，这人就脱鞋给那人。以色列人都以此为证据。Now in former times in Israel, concerning the redemption or exchange of property, to make any matter legally binding a man would remove his sandal and give it to the other party, and this was a confirmation in Israel.

⁸那人对波阿斯说：“你自己买吧！”于是将鞋脱下来了。So the kinsman-redeemer removed his sandal and said to Boaz, “Buy it for yourself.”

波阿斯娶路得为妻

⁹波阿斯对长老和众民说：“你们今日作见证，凡属以利米勒和基连、玛伦的，我都从拿俄米手中置买了；At this, Boaz said to the elders and all the people, “You are witnesses today that I am buying from Naomi all that belonged to Elimelech, Chilion, and Mahlon.

¹⁰又娶了玛伦的妻摩押女子路得为妻，好在死人的产业上存留他的名，免得他的名在本族本乡灭没。你们今日可以作见证。”Moreover, I have acquired Ruth the Moabitess, Mahlon’s widow, as my wife, to raise up the name of the deceased through his inheritance, so that his name will not disappear from among his brothers or from the gate of his home. You are witnesses today.”

¹¹在城门坐着的众民和长老都说：“我们作见证。愿耶和华使进你家的这女子，像建立以色列家的拉结、利亚二人一样。又愿你在以法他得亨通，在伯利恒得名声。“We are witnesses,” said the elders and all the people at the gate. “May the LORD make the woman entering your home like Rachel and Leah, who together built up the house of Israel. May you be prosperous in Ephrathah and famous in Bethlehem.

¹²愿耶和华从这少年女子赐你后裔，使你的家像她玛从犹大所生法勒斯的家一般。”And may your house become like the house of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah, because of the offspring the LORD will give you by this young woman.”

俄备得出生

¹³于是，波阿斯娶了路得为妻，与她同房。耶和华使她怀孕生了一个儿子。So Boaz took Ruth, and she became his wife. And when he had relations with her, the LORD enabled her to conceive, and she gave birth to a son.

¹⁴妇人们对拿俄米说：“耶和华是应当称颂的！因为今日没有撇下你，使你无至近的亲属。愿这孩子在以色列中得名声。Then the women said to Naomi, “Blessed be the LORD, who has not left you this day without a kinsman-redeemer. May his name become famous in Israel.

¹⁵他必提起你的精神，奉养你的老，因为是爱慕你的那儿妇所生的。有这儿妇比有七个儿子还好！”He will renew your life and sustain you in your old age. For your daughter-in-law, who loves you and is better to you than seven sons, has given him birth.”

¹⁶拿俄米就把孩子抱在怀中，作他的养母。And Naomi took the child, placed him on her lap, and became a nurse to him.

¹⁷邻舍的妇人说：“拿俄米得孩子了！”就给孩子起名叫俄备得。这俄备得是耶西的父，耶西是大卫的父。The neighbor women said, “A son has been born to Naomi,” and they named him Obed. He became the father of Jesse, the father of David.

从法勒斯到大卫的家谱

¹⁸法勒斯的后代记在下面：法勒斯生希斯仑；Now these are the generations of Perez: Perez was the father of Hezron,

¹⁹希斯仑生兰；兰生亚米拿达；Hezron was the father of Ram, Ram was the father of Amminadab,

²⁰亚米拿达生拿顺；拿顺生撒门；Amminadab was the father of Nahshon, Nahshon was the father of Salmon,

²¹撒门生波阿斯；波阿斯生俄备得；Salmon was the father of Boaz, Boaz was the father of Obed,

²²俄备得生耶西；耶西生大卫。Obed was the father of Jesse, and Jesse was the father of David.

不义的管家

¹耶稣又对门徒说：“有一个财主的管家，别人向他主人告他浪费主人的财物。Jesus also said to His disciples, “There was a rich man whose manager was accused of wasting his possessions.

²主人叫他来，对他说：‘我听见你这事怎么样呢？把你所经管的交代明白，因你不能再作我的管家。’So he called him in to ask, ‘What is this I hear about you? Turn in an account of your management, for you cannot be manager any longer.’

³那管家心里说：‘主人辞我，不用我再作管家，我将来做什么？锄地呢？无力；讨饭呢？怕羞。The manager said to himself, ‘What shall I do, now that my master is taking away my position? I am too weak to dig and too ashamed to beg.

⁴我知道怎么行，好叫人在我不作管家之后，接我到他们家里去。’I know what I will do so that after my removal from management, people will welcome me into their homes.’

⁵于是把欠他主人债的，一个一个地叫了来，问头一个说：‘你欠我主人多少？’And he called in each one of his master’s debtors. ‘How much do you owe my master?’ he asked the first.

⁶他说：‘一百篓（每篓约五十斤）油。’管家说：‘拿你的帐，快坐下，写五十。’‘A hundred measures of olive oil,’ he answered. ‘Take your bill,’ said the manager, ‘sit down quickly, and write fifty.’

⁷又问一个说：‘你欠多少？’他说：‘一百石麦子。’管家说：‘拿你的帐，写八十。’Then he asked another, ‘And how much do you owe?’ ‘A hundred measures of wheat,’ he replied. ‘Take your bill and write eighty,’ he told him.

⁸主人就夸奖这不义的管家做事聪明；因为今世之子，在世事之上，较比光明之子更加聪明。The master commended the dishonest manager because he had acted shrewdly. For the sons of this age are more shrewd in dealing with their own kind than are the sons of light.

用钱财结交朋友

⁹我又告诉你们，要借着那不义的钱财结交朋友，到了钱财无用的时候，他们可以接你们到永存的帐幕里去。I tell you, use worldly wealth to make friends for yourselves so that when it is gone, they will welcome you into eternal dwellings.

在最小的事上忠心

¹⁰人在最小的事上忠心，在大事上也忠心；在最小的事上不义，在大事上也不义。Whoever is faithful with very little will also be faithful with much, and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much.

¹¹倘若你们在不义的钱财上不忠心，谁还把那真实的钱财托付你们呢？So if you have not been faithful with worldly wealth, who will entrust you with true riches?

¹²倘若你们在别人的东西上不忠心，谁还把你们自己的东西给你们呢？And if you have not been faithful with the belongings of another, who will give you belongings of your own?

不能事奉两个主

¹³一个仆人不能事奉两个主；不是恶这个爱那个，就是重这个轻那个。你们不能又事奉　神，又事奉玛门。”No servant can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.”

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神知道人的心

¹⁴法利赛人是贪爱钱财的；他们听见这一切话，就嗤笑耶稣。The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, heard all of this and were scoffing at Jesus.

¹⁵耶稣对他们说：“你们是在人面前自称为义的，你们的心，　神却知道；因为人所尊贵的，是　神看为可憎恶的。So He said to them, “You are the ones who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts. For what is prized among men is detestable before God.

律法与神国的福音

¹⁶律法和先知到约翰为止，从此　神国的福音传开了，人人努力要进去。The Law and the Prophets were proclaimed until John. Since that time, the gospel of the kingdom of God is being preached, and everyone is forcing his way into it.

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¹⁷天地废去较比律法的一点一画落空还容易。But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for a single stroke of a pen to drop out of the Law.

¹⁸凡休妻另娶的就是犯奸淫；娶被休之妻的也是犯奸淫。”Anyone who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery, and he who marries a divorced woman commits adultery.

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