2018年5月27日 星期日

路得記4:1-12


4:1 波阿斯到了城門,坐在那裡,恰巧波阿斯所說的那至近的親屬經過。波阿斯說:「某人哪,你來坐在這裡。」他就來坐下。
4:2
波阿斯又從本城的長老中揀選了十人,對他們說:「請你們坐在這裡。」他們就都坐下。
4:3
波阿斯對那至近的親屬說:「從摩押地回來的拿俄米,現在要賣我們族兄以利米勒的那塊地;
4:4
我想當贖那塊地的是你,其次是我,以外再沒有別人了。你可以在這裡的人面前和我本國的長老面前說明,你若肯贖就贖,若不肯贖就告訴我。」那人回答說:「我肯贖。」
4:5
波阿斯說:「你從拿俄米手中買這地的時候,也當娶(原文是買;十節同)死人的妻摩押女子路得,使死人在產業上存留他的名。」
4:6
那人說:「這樣我就不能贖了,恐怕於我的產業有礙。你可以贖我所當贖的,我不能贖了。」
4:7
從前,在以色列中要定奪甚麼事,或贖回,或交易,這人就脫鞋給那人。以色列人都以此為證據。
4:8
那人對波阿斯說:「你自己買吧!」於是將鞋脫下來了。
4:9
波阿斯對長老和眾民說:「你們今日作見證,凡屬以利米勒和基連、瑪倫的,我都從拿俄米手中置買了;
4:10
又娶了瑪倫的妻摩押女子路得為妻,好在死人的產業上存留他的名,免得他的名在本族本鄉滅沒。你們今日可以作見證。」
4:11
在城門坐著的眾民和長老都說:「我們作見證。願耶和華使進你家的這女子,像建立以色列家的拉結、利亞二人一樣。又願你在以法他得亨通,在伯利恆得名聲。
4:12
願耶和華從這少年女子賜你後裔,使你的家像她瑪從猶大所生法勒斯的家一般。」

Meanwhile Boaz went up to the town gate and sat down there just as the guardian-redeemer[a] he had mentioned came along. Boaz said, “Come over here, my friend, and sit down.” So he went over and sat down.
Boaz took ten of the elders of the town and said, “Sit here,” and they did so. Then he said to the guardian-redeemer, “Naomi, who has come back from Moab, is selling the piece of land that belonged to our relative Elimelek. I thought I should bring the matter to your attention and suggest that you buy it in the presence of these seated here and in the presence of the elders of my people. If you will redeem it, do so. But if you[b] will not, tell me, so I will know. For no one has the right to do it except you, and I am next in line.”
“I will redeem it,” he said.
Then Boaz said, “On the day you buy the land from Naomi, you also acquire Ruth the Moabite, the[c] dead man’s widow, in order to maintain the name of the dead with his property.”
At this, the guardian-redeemer said, “Then I cannot redeem it because I might endanger my own estate. You redeem it yourself. I cannot do it.”
(Now in earlier times in Israel, for the redemption and transfer of property to become final, one party took off his sandal and gave it to the other. This was the method of legalizing transactions in Israel.)
So the guardian-redeemer said to Boaz, “Buy it yourself.” And he removed his sandal.
Then Boaz announced to the elders and all the people, “Today you are witnesses that I have bought from Naomi all the property of Elimelek, Kilion and Mahlon. 10 I have also acquired Ruth the Moabite, Mahlon’s widow, as my wife, in order to maintain the name of the dead with his property, so that his name will not disappear from among his family or from his hometown. Today you are witnesses!”
11 Then the elders and all the people at the gate said, “We are witnesses. May the Lord make the woman who is coming into your home like Rachel and Leah, who together built up the family of Israel. May you have standing in Ephrathah and be famous in Bethlehem. 12 Through the offspring the Lord gives you by this young woman, may your family be like that of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah.”

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    波阿斯是一個辦事有次序的人,該怎樣進行就怎樣進行,尤其是財產的承接一點也不馬虎,把事情處理的有條有理。因為照猶太人的律法,取得土地也要娶過世兄弟的妻子,好使兄弟的財產不制失落。

    然而可以有第一順位承繼的人,不願意娶路得為妻,就失去了承繼的權利了。波阿斯願意娶路得為妻,就可以取得土地了!而這樣的舉動就蒙了長老的祝福:「我們作見證。願耶和華使進你家的這女子,像建立以色列家的拉結、利亞二人一樣。又願你在以法他得亨通,在伯利恆得名聲。願耶和華從這少年女子賜你後裔,使你的家像她瑪從猶大所生法勒斯的家一般。

    從這件事的過程,我們看見上帝賜福在願意選擇遵行旨意的人身上。正如波阿斯,願意承擔起路得的事情,讓家族的土地得以完整,上帝就大大的賜福給波阿斯。

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