6 Yona yathi: Yintombi yaseMowabi eyabuya loNawomi evela elizweni laseMowabi;
6 Yena wathi, “NgeyaseMowabi eyabuya loNawomi.
UAbrama wathi: Nkosi Nkulunkulu, uzangiphani? Ngoba kangilamntwana; indlalifa yendlu yami inguEliyezeri waseDamaseko.
UAbrahama wathi encekwini yakhe enkulu yendlu yakhe, ephatha konke alakho: Beka isandla sakho ngaphansi kwethangazi lami.
UJosefa wafumana umusa phambi kwayo, wayisebenzela; yamenza waba ngumphathi wendlu yayo lakho konke eyayilakho.
Kwathi selitshonile, umninisivini wathi enduneni yakhe: Biza izisebenzi, uzikhokhele imali yazo, uqale ngezokucina ucine ngezokuqala.
Pho, ngubani umphathi wezinceku othembekileyo lohlakaniphileyo, inkosi yakhe embeke phezu kwabendlu yayo ukuba abanike ukudla ngesikhathi esifaneleyo na?
Kodwa uRuthe wathi: Ungangincengi ukuba ngikutshiye lokuba ngiyekele ukukulandela; ngoba lapho uya khona, ngizakuya khona lami, lalapho uhlala khona, lami ngizahlala khona. Abantu bakini bazakuba ngabakithi, loNkulunkulu wakho abe nguNkulunkulu wami;
Basebehamba bobabili baze bafika eBetlehema. Sebefikile khona kwayaluzela umuzi wonke ngenxa yabo. Abesifazana bathi: Lo unguye uNawomi na?
Wabuya ngokunjalo uNawomi kanye loRuthe waseMowabi umalokazana wakhe, bevela elizweni laseMowabi. Bafika eBetlehema ekuqaliseni kokuvunwa kwamabele.
Wasesithi encekwini yakhe eyayibekwe ukukhangela abavunayo: Lintombi ngekabani na?
intombi ithe: Ake ngidobhe okusalayo phakathi kwezithungo emva kwabavunayo. Yasisizake ibi khonapha kusukela ekuseni kuze kube khathesi ingaphumuli lakancinyane.