Agasti 23, 2013, Ukufunda

URuthe 1: 1, 3-6, 14-16, 22

1:1 Ezinsukwini zomunye wabahluleli, ngesikhathi amajaji ebusa, kwaba khona indlala ezweni. Indoda yaseBetlehema Juda yasuka yaya kogogobala ezweni lakwaMowabi kanye nomkakhe nabantwana ababili..

1:4 Bathatha abafazi kwaMowabi, omunye wakhe kwakuthiwa u-Orpa, lomunye uRuthe. Bahlala khona iminyaka eyishumi.

1:5 Bafa bobabili, okungukuthi uMahaloni noKiliyoni, owesifazane wasala yedwa, washonelwa izingane zakhe ezimbili nomyeni wakhe.

1:6 Wasuka-ke ukuze ahambe aye ezweni lakubo, nawomalokazana bakhe bobabili, esifundeni sakwaMowabi. Ngoba wayezwile ukuthi uJehova wayebaphakele abantu bakhe futhi wayebanike ukudla.

1:14 Ukuphendula, baphakamisa izwi baphinde bakhala. U-Orpa wamanga umamezala wakhe, bese ebuyela emuva. URuthe wanamathela kuninazala.

1:15 uNawomi wathi kuye, “Niyabo, isihlobo sakho sibuyela kubantu bakubo, nakonkulunkulu balo. Sheshani nimlandele.”

1:16 Waphendula, “Ungamelani nami, sengathi ngizakunishiya ngihambe; ngoba lapho oya khona, ngizohamba, nalapho uzohlala khona, nami ngizohlala nawe. Abantu bakho bangabantu bami, futhi uNkulunkulu wenu unguNkulunkulu wami.

1:22 Ngakho-ke, UNawomi wahamba noRuthe, owakwaMowabi, umalokazana wakhe, ezweni lokugogobala kwakhe, wabuyela eBetlehema, ngesikhathi sokuvunwa kokuqala kwebhali.