Ruth 2:4
And behold, he came out of Bethlehem, and said to the reapers: The Lord be with you. And they answered him: The Lord bless thee.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Et ecce, ipse veniebat de Bethlehem, dixitque messoribus : Dominus vobiscum. Qui responderunt ei : Benedicat tibi Dominus.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- Καὶ ἰδοὺ Βόος ἦλθεν ἐκ Βαιθλέεμ καὶ εἶπεν τοῖς θερίζουσιν Κύριος μεθ᾽ ὑμῶν· καὶ εἶπον αὐτῷ Εὐλογήσαι σε Κύριος.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וְהִנֵּה בֹ֗עַז בָּ֚א מִבֵּ֣ית לֶ֔חֶם וַיֹּ֥אמֶר לַקּוֹצְרִ֖ים יְהוָ֣ה עִמָּכֶ֑ם וַיֹּ֥אמְרוּ ל֖וֹ יְבָרֶכְךָ֥ יְהוָֽה
Haydock's commentary
With you. This blessing the Church still adopts in her service. (Worthington)
It was customary to bless one another during harvest, Psalm cxxviii. 5, 8. (Calmet)
Booz did, as Cato advises, Ne opera parcas visere; "See what is going forward." The master's eye makes the servants diligent. (Haydock).
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.