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[ Man Narrating ]
Yonder is a city whose name...

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will one day be known
in the far places of the Earth.

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Bethlehem of Judah.

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Generations have yet to pass
before its star shall rise
in the east.

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Much shall happen
in these lands
and be told.

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For nearby, across the Jordan
in the land of Moab,

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lives a people who of old
have hated the God of Israel...

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and who serve a god of stone,
Chemosh,

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thirsty for the blood
of the young and the innocent.

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Yes?

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Uh--

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Are you giving her
to be raised in
the service of our god?

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But you pay something.
Only when there is want.

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But there is want.
Uh, bad crops, sickness.

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Uh, I can't feed my family.

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Is she in good health?
Yes.

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Not lame?
No.

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No blemishes?

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Of all my daughters,
she is the strongest
and the prettiest.

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[ Coins Jingle ]

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[ Whimpers ]

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[ Whimpers ]

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What is your name?

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Ruth.

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[ Woman ]
Ruth?

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Recite the prayer.

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Chemosh is good.
Chemosh is strong.

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He is the force of life,

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the bringer of victories,

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the shield against our enemies.

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To one among you will soon come
the greatest honor...

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that can fall
to a daughter of Chemosh.

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An endless honor,
a glory forever.

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The high priest of all Moab
will judge of you.

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It is between the first
and the third.

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This child.
See that she is
properly prepared.

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What is this?

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I've not seen it before.

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She should not have been
permitted to go before
Lord Hedak.

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You know very well
there must be no mark
or blemish of any kind.

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It was not there a moment ago.

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Look!
I have no blemishes!

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Very well.
Take the other child.

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My lady, it's going away!
It's almost gone!

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The high priest has
chosen her to be sacrificed,
and that is the end of it.

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This day you pass from a life
of learning about your god...

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to a life of serving him.

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Your first duty
will attach to our yearly
ceremony of sacrifice.

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In this year of Chemosh,
the child is Tebah.

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Among you shall be shared
the honor of fitting her
for immolation.

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Obey your rectoress
in all things.

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[ Bell Chimes ]

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You will return now
to your chambers.

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[ Bell Chimes ]

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[ Gong Sounds ]

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[ Chattering ]

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[ Metal Clanks ]

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The crown--
is it ready?
Your beneficence.

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This?
[ Chuckles ]

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This gross piece
to be worn on
the altar of Chemosh?

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It's heavy and dead.
It lacks luster.

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But it is wrought
of the finest gold.

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Have you no sense, old man?
It needs glitter.

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It must be seen
at the farthest reaches
of the assemblage!

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It must flash
when the sun strikes it!

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With your leave, gracious lady,
I designed this with what
I understood your wish--

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No matter what you understood.

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The crown for this child
must be radiant as though
for the head of a queen.

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Yes, but what
I tried to do was--

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[ Rectoress ]
You were not engaged to try.

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You're unworthy
of the honor of this work.

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Look. Look how graceful this is
and how earthbound the other.

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But that, your beneficence,
I designed for a bride.

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It is for feasting and joy.

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It celebrates life,
whilst the other...
is to be worn in death.

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[ Rectoress ]
Say no more!

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What is sacrificed
to Chemosh is endowed
with eternal life.

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Tebah, tell this man
what it means
to die for Chemosh.

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To die for Chemosh
is to live forever.

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I will make a crown that
will sparkle in the sun.

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It will glow
with precious stones.
It will be happy as a bride.

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You disapprove of sacrifice?

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Of human sacrifice.

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Take Tebah outside
and wait for me.

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I never heard sentiments
like yours before.
How do you come by them?

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Through belief
in a merciful God.

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And where is this god?
Show him to me.

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- He is invisible.
- [ Giggling ]

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That makes it convenient
for carrying him with you,
does it not?

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Make the crown as I wish it.

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Deal with this person
in the matter.

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Have him bring the crown to you.

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And remember my wishes!
It must be radiant!

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You will bring
the crown to me in
the sacrarium of the temple.

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Yes, my lady.

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- Do you know
where it is?
- Yes, my lady.

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Above all, remember
the wish of her beneficence--

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that the crown be radiant,
not gross and, uh, earthbound.

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"Radiant." "Lacks luster."

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They have mountains of gold
and palaces full of jewels, and
they must use every bit of it.

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Never mind their gold
and jewels. Why don't you
learn to hold your tongue?

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You know
how sensitive they are
about human sacrifice.

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Not sensitive enough!
[ Crown Clangs ]

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Their ritual is their affair.
You had no right to raise
your voice against it.

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Father, the thought
of killing that child--

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Keep such thoughts to yourself.
Don't spoil things
for the rest of us.

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Mahlon, don't be foolhardy.

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We are still Judeans,
and they are Moabites.
Don't forget that.

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They won't.
But, Mother, they don't even
think of us as Judeans.

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Look at Orpah, a Moabitess.
Didn't she marry me?
Aren't we accepted?

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That is your happiness.

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You did speak foolishly, Mahlon.

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But I'm glad of it.

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Oh, Chemosh,
thou art the force of light.

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To our enemies
give evil, plague,

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famine and misery.

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To our enemies
give evil, plague,
famine and misery.

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To our king
grant health, strength
and enduring years of life.

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To our king
grant health, strength--

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[ Together ]
And enduring... years...
of life.

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The artisan is here.

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Admit him.

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We shall go on with this later.

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Fine. Very fine.

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That too.

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Show me the rest.

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[ Glass Shatters ]

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Do you disapprove
of disciplining slaves...

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as you do of sacrificing
to the gods?

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Are you going
to answer me?
My answer would offend you.

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No more than
you have already done.

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It is not wise
to be lax with servants.

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It only encourages disobedience.
One must be strong with them.

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You disagree?
I never confuse gentleness
with weakness, my lady.

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Is this more of the teachings
of your invisible god?

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Not exactly,
although his laws forbid
the striking of slaves.

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An abused slave can even
sue his master for freedom.

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Sue his master!
[ Laughs ]

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This god of yours--
has he a name?

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He is known by many names--
Elohim, Adonai, Jehovah.

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It matters not so long
as one knows he exists,
and I do.

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If he is invisible,
how do you know he exists?

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Is it his invisibility
that amuses you?

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Am--
[ Laughs ]
Among other things.

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May I ask a question
in all deference?
You may.

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Suppose you wish to pray,
but you're not near
an image of Chemosh.

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Then I go to him.

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Well, suppose
a soldier of Moab is wounded
on a field of battle...

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and cannot get to
an image of Chemosh
to pray for his life.

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Then he thinks of Chemosh.

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But the Chemosh he's thinking of
is invisible at the time
he thinks of him.

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In my work, gracious lady,

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I have sometimes
repaired your god.

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Isn't it hard to believe
that a-- a god who
cracks and crumbles...

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and can be repaired
by a mere artisan
like myself,

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can be the same god
who makes the birds sing
and the sun rise and set?

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How can a god whose
own head gets broken...

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mend the broken heads
of his soldiers?

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[ Exhales ]

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Tell me more
about your Jehovah
of the many names.

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You have but to send
for me any evening.

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Perhaps we can talk
in the gardens... alone.

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You will grow old
waiting, artisan.

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My name is Mahlon.

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An impudent merchant!

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What else did she say
besides "fine"?

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Oh, nothing important.
It was all genial?

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Sure. There was
even laughter.
Laughter?

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In the temple of Chemosh?
Mm-hmm.

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I have been told
it is always very grim.

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[ Laughs ]
Not always.

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The festivals of fertility
are far from grim,
eh, Orpah?

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[ Bell Rings ]

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Is this the house of Mahlon?

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[ Mother ]
It is. Enter.

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[ Whispering ]

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Well?
A message for me from the
temple. I'm being sent for.

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Something about our work?
No. Nothing like that.

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The girl.
Well, well.

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The young priestess?
She sent for you?

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Be careful, Mahlon.
Even for a Moabite,
it would be dangerous.

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For a Judean--
Oh, you make much
of nothing.

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Have no fear, Mother.

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Lest you have the wrong notion,
I must make clear
why I sent for you.

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That is not necessary, my lady.

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That you did is enough,
and it pleases me very much.

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There is no reason
for you to be pleased...

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since it is not about you
that I've been thinking,

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but your ridiculous god.

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That was all I inferred.

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Well, tell me more about him.

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Since you say
your god is everywhere,

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perchance I am
stepping on him right now.

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Indirectly, yes,
the Earth being
one of his creations.

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The Earth?
Then you may as well claim
that he made the moon too.

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It is told that he made
two great lights
in the heavens--

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the greater to rule the day
and the lesser
to rule the night.

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And all other luminous objects
in the sky, I suppose.

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Yes.

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And one closer by.

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Why do you look at me like that?

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Because you are
so beautiful,
so very beautiful.

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Don't you know that you are?

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I have never thought about it.

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No one has ever told you?
No man has ever
looked at you as I do?

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If-If he has,
I have not seen it.

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You were not watching for it.

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Isn't it pleasant,
even for a priestess,

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to be told
that she is beautiful,
especially when it's true?

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Is beauty so important?

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The beauty that's within,
as I know it is with you.

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How do you know?

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I am older than you,
and the years teach.

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Your teachings
are strange to me.
I will hear no more of them.

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00:19:17,424 --> 00:19:20,293
Don't be afraid
of what I am saying.
But I am afraid.

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Perhaps tomorrow night,
when you are less afraid.

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You are so young.

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You could be
so beautiful one day.

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What's wrong?

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Nothing. It's just that
I'm so happy for you.

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Go, Tebah.
Put your crown
among your other fittings.

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What are you
doing here?
You haven't dismissed me.

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What's-What's wrong
with telling a child
she's beautiful?

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Nothing, my lady.

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You may go.

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Kera.

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I am-- I am sorry
I struck you the other day.

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Thank you, my lady.

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You have been
singularly honored.

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The king is making a journey
throughout the land...

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to see the many arms and
precincts of his kingdom.

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He has asked for four
of the most seemly
of your rank...

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to join the party.

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Comport yourselves well!

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[ Horn Sounds ]

238
00:21:32,559 --> 00:21:35,562
[ Horn Continues ]

239
00:21:35,628 --> 00:21:38,431
You dogs, stand straight!

240
00:21:57,950 --> 00:22:03,590
This will stand
to exalt your greatness
for all time, my king.

241
00:22:03,656 --> 00:22:07,326
Would it please
your magnificence
to see the entire figure?

242
00:22:08,327 --> 00:22:11,498
Order them to turn the platform.

243
00:22:11,564 --> 00:22:14,634
You! Ten of you men,
over here!

244
00:22:14,701 --> 00:22:17,370
Put your backs to it!
Turn it around!

245
00:22:20,440 --> 00:22:22,942
[ Grunting ]

246
00:22:29,982 --> 00:22:31,851
[ Groans ]

247
00:22:36,022 --> 00:22:37,990
[ Cracking ]

248
00:22:39,792 --> 00:22:42,495
[ Crashing Sound ]
[ Screaming ]

249
00:22:44,864 --> 00:22:46,933
[ Screaming ]

250
00:22:49,035 --> 00:22:51,771
I've seen enough.

251
00:22:59,812 --> 00:23:03,716
Have you enjoyed the journey?
Yes, my king.

252
00:23:03,783 --> 00:23:07,386
What is your name?
Ruth.

253
00:23:08,421 --> 00:23:11,023
When do you complete
your purification?

254
00:23:11,090 --> 00:23:13,259
In the spring, sire.

255
00:23:13,325 --> 00:23:17,396
It will please me to welcome you
to the royal household.

256
00:23:17,464 --> 00:23:19,499
Thank you, sire.

257
00:23:22,001 --> 00:23:25,004
And as the prisoners
were turning the platform,

258
00:23:25,071 --> 00:23:27,373
it began to give way.

259
00:23:27,440 --> 00:23:30,109
The statue of Chemosh
started to tip.

260
00:23:30,176 --> 00:23:33,613
My heart stopped for a moment.
I thought the king
would be crushed.

261
00:23:33,680 --> 00:23:36,516
But luckily the platform held.

262
00:23:36,583 --> 00:23:38,551
And only prisoners were crushed?

263
00:23:38,618 --> 00:23:41,420
Yes, three of them,
squashed like insects.

264
00:23:41,488 --> 00:23:44,123
It must have been exciting.
Oh, yes, it was.

265
00:23:45,658 --> 00:23:47,894
Aren't you pleased to hear
of my experience?

266
00:23:47,960 --> 00:23:51,798
Fascinating.
But I haven't
told you the best.

267
00:23:51,864 --> 00:23:55,067
His magnificence, the king,
actually spoke to me.

268
00:23:55,134 --> 00:23:59,205
He asked my name and
how long before my purification
would be complete.

269
00:23:59,271 --> 00:24:01,140
When I told him, he smiled...

270
00:24:01,207 --> 00:24:05,444
and said he would be
pleased to welcome me
to his royal household.

271
00:24:06,979 --> 00:24:10,016
All in all,
a memorable journey for you.

272
00:24:11,383 --> 00:24:13,452
You disapprove.

273
00:24:14,687 --> 00:24:16,656
I wish I'd never let you come.

274
00:24:17,690 --> 00:24:20,493
Why? Why, Ruth?

275
00:24:22,929 --> 00:24:26,398
Be-Because you disturb
and confuse me.

276
00:24:26,465 --> 00:24:28,968
I've been raised
to serve Chemosh.

277
00:24:29,035 --> 00:24:32,471
He is my god, my only god,
and he's been good to me.

278
00:24:32,539 --> 00:24:35,207
How has he been good?

279
00:24:35,274 --> 00:24:37,076
No, I'm not challenging you.

280
00:24:37,143 --> 00:24:39,145
You mean he's given you
comfort and position?

281
00:24:39,211 --> 00:24:42,849
More than that,
much more.
Well, tell me.

282
00:24:42,915 --> 00:24:47,554
For one thing,
when I was a child,
I was chosen to be sacrificed.

283
00:24:47,620 --> 00:24:52,191
Suddenly, a blemish
appeared on my arm,
so they did not take me.

284
00:24:52,258 --> 00:24:56,629
But no sooner did
another child replace me
than the blemish faded.

285
00:24:56,696 --> 00:24:59,632
Chemosh had spared me.

286
00:24:59,699 --> 00:25:02,201
Perhaps it was a higher god
than Chemosh who spared you.

287
00:25:03,970 --> 00:25:07,607
Besides, I thought being
chosen for sacrifice
was a coveted honor,

288
00:25:07,674 --> 00:25:10,743
yet you speak
of being spared from it.

289
00:25:10,810 --> 00:25:14,080
You've confused me
so I-- so I can't think.

290
00:25:18,250 --> 00:25:21,654
I would rather give up
the most important thing
in my life--

291
00:25:21,721 --> 00:25:24,123
the joy of seeing you--
than bring you distress.

292
00:25:26,826 --> 00:25:28,928
Shall I not come again, Ruth?

293
00:25:28,995 --> 00:25:31,097
No.

294
00:25:31,163 --> 00:25:35,668
But please, Mahlon,
no more talk about your people
across the Jordan...

295
00:25:35,735 --> 00:25:37,737
who are forbidden
to punish slaves,

296
00:25:37,804 --> 00:25:41,507
who cannot beat their animals
or even harm a bird's nest.

297
00:25:41,574 --> 00:25:45,011
Please, Mahlon,
tell me no more
about your strange god...

298
00:25:45,077 --> 00:25:47,580
with so many names and no face.

299
00:26:08,500 --> 00:26:10,903
Oh, Mahlon, this is all wrong.

300
00:26:12,404 --> 00:26:14,741
I was at peace until I met you.

301
00:26:16,876 --> 00:26:19,946
Perhaps it would be best
if I don't see you again.
No, no.

302
00:26:20,012 --> 00:26:22,081
[ Kera ]
My lady, my lady.

303
00:26:22,148 --> 00:26:24,550
I will come again
whether you send
for me or not.

304
00:26:24,617 --> 00:26:28,187
No. If Kera's not
watching out for you,
they'll find you and kill you.

305
00:26:28,254 --> 00:26:30,723
You must go now.

306
00:26:32,424 --> 00:26:34,293
I made it for you.

307
00:26:34,360 --> 00:26:37,363
The tablets of the law,
God's law.
I cannot take it.

308
00:26:37,429 --> 00:26:40,900
Cast it away if you like
once you leave me,
but keep it until then.

309
00:26:40,967 --> 00:26:45,772
I made it for you.
Made it with great love,
such great love.

310
00:26:45,838 --> 00:26:47,874
[ Kera ]
My lady.

311
00:26:58,885 --> 00:27:01,220
[ Clattering ]

312
00:27:01,287 --> 00:27:03,155
[ Sniffling ]

313
00:27:04,390 --> 00:27:06,659
What is it, Tebah?

314
00:27:06,726 --> 00:27:09,829
I-I had a dream.

315
00:27:12,999 --> 00:27:16,068
Come.
Tell me about it.

316
00:27:18,370 --> 00:27:22,074
[ Sniffles ]
A golden bird came
through my window.

317
00:27:22,141 --> 00:27:26,813
He had a silver beak,
and his beak
stabbed me here,

318
00:27:26,879 --> 00:27:29,015
and blood began to run.

319
00:27:29,081 --> 00:27:32,518
It's nothing, Tebah.
Nothing. Just a dream.

320
00:27:32,584 --> 00:27:37,857
There are alien gods
who are jealous of you
and envious of Chemosh.

321
00:27:37,924 --> 00:27:40,727
They tried to frighten you
with a bad dream.

322
00:27:40,793 --> 00:27:44,797
Oh, but they will fail
because Chemosh protects you.

323
00:27:48,968 --> 00:27:50,970
You must get your sleep.

324
00:27:52,638 --> 00:27:55,141
Your great day is coming close.

325
00:28:25,571 --> 00:28:27,573
My Lord Hedak.

326
00:28:27,639 --> 00:28:31,243
So, you are troubled.
Tell me.

327
00:28:33,980 --> 00:28:37,549
I have--
I have sinned.

328
00:28:37,616 --> 00:28:39,919
I've offended the god.

329
00:28:39,986 --> 00:28:43,022
I'm deep in sin,
my Lord Hedak.
Let me judge of that.

330
00:28:45,858 --> 00:28:48,427
I've doubted the ceremony
of the sacrifice.

331
00:28:51,964 --> 00:28:56,435
You have seen many sacrifices
since you were old enough
to understand.

332
00:28:57,937 --> 00:28:59,872
You have never
doubted them before.

333
00:28:59,939 --> 00:29:03,042
What has happened, Ruth?

334
00:29:03,109 --> 00:29:05,945
I-- I talked
with a man...

335
00:29:06,012 --> 00:29:08,747
who believes no god
could be pleased...

336
00:29:08,815 --> 00:29:11,984
to accept
the life of a child
on the altar.

337
00:29:13,652 --> 00:29:15,587
I could not
meet his questioning.

338
00:29:15,654 --> 00:29:18,024
[ Rectoress ]
Who's the man?

339
00:29:20,126 --> 00:29:23,062
Mahlon, the Judean artisan.

340
00:29:24,230 --> 00:29:27,233
He's-- He's a gentle,
a kind man,

341
00:29:27,299 --> 00:29:29,902
and-and that makes
my burden greater.

342
00:29:29,969 --> 00:29:34,573
You have given heed
to one of our old enemy.

343
00:29:34,640 --> 00:29:37,977
You are naive, my daughter.
You have much to learn.

344
00:29:38,044 --> 00:29:41,547
Ruth, do you not know
in your inward heart...

345
00:29:41,613 --> 00:29:44,383
that this sacrifice
of the virgin child
is wholesome?

346
00:29:44,450 --> 00:29:47,854
Yes.
That it brings
fertility to the land?

347
00:29:47,920 --> 00:29:49,721
Yes.
Do you not know
that this sacrifice...

348
00:29:49,788 --> 00:29:54,226
purges our land of sins
and sustains us
against our enemies?

349
00:29:54,293 --> 00:29:57,163
Yes, yes, my lord,
I know all this
in my inward heart--

350
00:29:57,229 --> 00:30:00,166
The ways of Chemosh
are not to be questioned!

351
00:30:01,300 --> 00:30:03,735
Yes, my lord.

352
00:30:03,802 --> 00:30:07,073
You have found favor
in the king's eyes.

353
00:30:07,139 --> 00:30:10,877
In the spring, you will be
a priestess of high station.

354
00:30:10,943 --> 00:30:14,380
You may even become
one of the king's consorts.

355
00:30:15,848 --> 00:30:18,317
You still have misgivings, Ruth?

356
00:30:19,618 --> 00:30:22,454
No. No, my lady.

357
00:30:23,956 --> 00:30:26,926
You are going to be stronger
for your experience.

358
00:30:26,993 --> 00:30:29,561
Remember, you have
the exalted honor and duty...

359
00:30:29,628 --> 00:30:33,299
of leading the child, Tebah,
to the altar tomorrow.

360
00:30:34,934 --> 00:30:37,003
Be at peace with yourself.

361
00:30:56,022 --> 00:30:59,025
[ Horns Continue ]

362
00:31:04,997 --> 00:31:08,034
Let the child, Tebah,
be brought forth.

363
00:31:08,100 --> 00:31:12,504
[ Horns Sounding ]

364
00:31:16,708 --> 00:31:21,580
[ Horns Continue ]

365
00:32:07,593 --> 00:32:09,461
Now, my child.

366
00:32:15,901 --> 00:32:19,371
Oh, Chemosh, thou art
the force of light!

367
00:32:19,438 --> 00:32:22,108
To our enemies...

368
00:32:22,174 --> 00:32:24,843
give evil, plague,

369
00:32:24,910 --> 00:32:27,379
famine and misery.

370
00:32:27,446 --> 00:32:31,117
To our king grant health, joy,

371
00:32:31,183 --> 00:32:35,087
long and enduring years of life.

372
00:32:37,056 --> 00:32:41,693
[ Horns Sounding ]

373
00:33:09,455 --> 00:33:11,890
No!

374
00:33:11,957 --> 00:33:13,959
[ Sobbing ]
No!

375
00:33:14,026 --> 00:33:16,462
No!

376
00:33:16,528 --> 00:33:18,597
[ Crowd Murmuring ]

377
00:33:20,632 --> 00:33:22,534
No!

378
00:33:26,605 --> 00:33:29,508
[ Sobbing ]

379
00:33:29,575 --> 00:33:31,710
[ Crowd Clamoring ]

380
00:33:31,777 --> 00:33:33,645
[ Whispers ]
They'd kill you.

381
00:33:33,712 --> 00:33:36,548
[ Sobbing ]

382
00:34:00,872 --> 00:34:04,310
Eat. Eat.

383
00:34:04,376 --> 00:34:07,079
I can't.
He's worried about
what they'll do to Ruth.

384
00:34:07,146 --> 00:34:11,217
Is he? I'm worried about
what they'll do to us.

385
00:34:11,283 --> 00:34:13,219
I've got to go to her.

386
00:34:13,285 --> 00:34:15,354
Mahlon, come back.

387
00:34:15,421 --> 00:34:17,956
I told you
time and again--
Easy with him, Elimelech.

388
00:34:18,023 --> 00:34:19,858
Have you never
known folly?
Mother--

389
00:34:19,925 --> 00:34:22,494
[ Armor Clattering ]

390
00:34:22,561 --> 00:34:24,430
Take him!

391
00:34:26,232 --> 00:34:28,134
Take them away!
[ Tray Shatters ]

392
00:34:28,200 --> 00:34:31,803
[ Screams ]
No! Please, no!

393
00:34:35,274 --> 00:34:38,210
No, please!
No, please!

394
00:34:38,277 --> 00:34:40,446
Oh!
[ Sobbing ]

395
00:34:53,625 --> 00:34:56,094
[ Sighs ]

396
00:34:57,729 --> 00:34:59,565
It is my doing.

397
00:34:59,631 --> 00:35:01,500
I had no right
to bring this down on you.

398
00:35:01,567 --> 00:35:05,404
No. The sin is
on my head.

399
00:35:07,639 --> 00:35:12,311
I am punished for leaving
our people in Bethlehem
in time of trouble.

400
00:35:13,512 --> 00:35:16,582
I was rich, but denied the poor.

401
00:35:16,648 --> 00:35:20,051
I had bread,
but denied the hungry.

402
00:35:20,118 --> 00:35:23,355
I had substance,
but took it with me.

403
00:35:26,425 --> 00:35:29,895
Let's not cast lots for blame.
We're past that now.

404
00:35:29,961 --> 00:35:31,797
[ Footsteps Approach ]

405
00:35:38,136 --> 00:35:40,539
Get up!
Get up!

406
00:35:42,908 --> 00:35:45,177
[ Grunts ]

407
00:35:48,180 --> 00:35:51,183
[ Groans ]

408
00:35:52,218 --> 00:35:54,286
[ Grunts ]

409
00:36:01,227 --> 00:36:04,663
Murderers!
Murderers!

410
00:36:04,730 --> 00:36:06,598
Murderers!

411
00:36:12,971 --> 00:36:17,209
Prisoner, did you
have secret meetings
with a daughter of the temple?

412
00:36:21,880 --> 00:36:23,715
Yes.

413
00:36:23,782 --> 00:36:27,118
Did you speak to her
of an invisible power?

414
00:36:27,185 --> 00:36:30,489
Yes.
To what end?

415
00:36:30,556 --> 00:36:35,427
That she might learn of a god
to whom the killing of innocent
people is an abomination.

416
00:36:35,494 --> 00:36:37,596
The killing of
what innocent people?

417
00:36:37,663 --> 00:36:42,568
Tebah and all children
slain on the altar of Chemosh!

418
00:36:44,236 --> 00:36:47,739
And the killing
of my father and brother
for even less purpose!

419
00:36:47,806 --> 00:36:51,310
Artisan of Judah, you
and your family came to Moab...

420
00:36:51,377 --> 00:36:53,512
when there was
a famine in your land.

421
00:36:53,579 --> 00:36:56,415
We gave you shelter
and sustenance,

422
00:36:56,482 --> 00:36:59,217
and you repaid us by attempting
to corrupt a priestess.

423
00:36:59,285 --> 00:37:02,521
I have done injury
neither to your land
nor to a daughter of Moab!

424
00:37:02,588 --> 00:37:05,223
I repent nothing
of my love for her,

425
00:37:05,291 --> 00:37:07,192
nor for having told her
of a god of justice!

426
00:37:07,259 --> 00:37:10,529
We shall teach you
something of justice.

427
00:37:10,596 --> 00:37:14,566
The ax is too swift and kind
for a tempter and corrupter.

428
00:37:14,633 --> 00:37:17,202
Your house and shop
and all your possessions...

429
00:37:17,269 --> 00:37:19,705
shall be seized
in the name of the king,

430
00:37:19,771 --> 00:37:22,808
and you will be
sent to the quarries
for the rest of your life.

431
00:37:25,344 --> 00:37:26,878
Take him.

432
00:38:24,436 --> 00:38:28,073
I hope your isolation
has cleansed from you
the blasphemies of the Judeans.

433
00:38:30,976 --> 00:38:33,645
Well, has it not, Ruth?

434
00:38:33,712 --> 00:38:38,650
Have not six months
been long enough
to purge your thoughts?

435
00:38:38,717 --> 00:38:43,221
Surely you would not want
more time by yourself.

436
00:38:43,288 --> 00:38:46,792
No, my lady.
I should not.

437
00:38:48,794 --> 00:38:51,797
Good.
I bring you happy news.

438
00:38:52,731 --> 00:38:54,800
Chemosh has smiled on you.

439
00:38:56,468 --> 00:38:59,805
Thanks to the gracious
intercession of the king,

440
00:38:59,871 --> 00:39:02,140
your privileges
have been restored.

441
00:39:02,207 --> 00:39:05,711
Tonight you will
leave this room.

442
00:39:05,777 --> 00:39:09,848
Tomorrow you will
begin the month
of ultimate purification...

443
00:39:09,915 --> 00:39:12,584
before you enter
the king's household.

444
00:39:16,154 --> 00:39:18,790
You are to call on me...

445
00:39:18,857 --> 00:39:21,660
for the services of my office.

446
00:39:48,286 --> 00:39:52,357
I asked you never
to come here again.
I have brought my lady.

447
00:39:52,424 --> 00:39:54,893
It was not as you think,
mother of Mahlon.

448
00:39:54,960 --> 00:39:58,730
You came to us
many times before,
when we were still a family.

449
00:39:58,797 --> 00:40:01,366
You came bearing
your lady's messages
to my son,

450
00:40:01,433 --> 00:40:05,303
summoning him, no doubt,
for her amusement.

451
00:40:05,370 --> 00:40:08,339
Each time you came,
you brought death
closer to my house.

452
00:40:08,406 --> 00:40:11,810
Please believe me!
I had no thought
of betraying Mahlon.

453
00:40:11,877 --> 00:40:14,813
I have come to help.
We want no help from you.

454
00:40:14,880 --> 00:40:19,485
If I were not fearful for
your son's life, do you think
I would come stealing here?

455
00:40:19,551 --> 00:40:24,556
If I did not care for him,
would-would I carry
these tablets with me?

456
00:40:25,891 --> 00:40:29,628
Yes.
I watched him make them
with love and devotion.

457
00:40:29,695 --> 00:40:31,763
While you carried those
in the one hand,

458
00:40:31,830 --> 00:40:35,166
in the other
you carried a knife
for the killing of a child.

459
00:40:35,233 --> 00:40:37,002
Both are stained with blood.

460
00:40:37,068 --> 00:40:39,605
Could you put aside
your bitterness...

461
00:40:39,671 --> 00:40:42,541
long enough to restore
your son to you?

462
00:40:45,777 --> 00:40:49,981
What do you want?
I have planned
for Mahlon's escape.

463
00:40:50,048 --> 00:40:52,083
Escape.

464
00:40:52,150 --> 00:40:55,487
What can you do?
A maiden and her slave.

465
00:40:56,822 --> 00:41:00,325
These past weeks, Kera and I
have secretly arranged it.

466
00:41:00,391 --> 00:41:02,661
Yes. Two guards
are with us.

467
00:41:02,728 --> 00:41:05,430
Don't refuse us,
mother of Mahlon.

468
00:41:05,497 --> 00:41:08,166
It is the only hope,
and it must be tonight,

469
00:41:08,233 --> 00:41:11,803
for tomorrow
I prepare to join
the king's household.

470
00:41:11,870 --> 00:41:14,172
Please.

471
00:41:14,239 --> 00:41:16,041
What do you wish me to do?

472
00:41:18,243 --> 00:41:21,412
Kera will lead you
to one of the caves
on the Hebron Road.

473
00:41:21,479 --> 00:41:26,852
Wait there, and I will
bring Mahlon to you.
I promise it.

474
00:41:26,918 --> 00:41:28,820
I will go with you, Mother.

475
00:41:39,831 --> 00:41:41,967
May the Lord guide you.

476
00:41:46,037 --> 00:41:47,939
[ Sobs ]

477
00:41:52,477 --> 00:41:55,213
[ Hammering ]

478
00:43:31,609 --> 00:43:35,080
Don't speak.
The Lady Ruth is here
to help you escape.

479
00:43:40,518 --> 00:43:42,387
Follow me.

480
00:44:25,663 --> 00:44:28,967
[ Rumbling ]

481
00:44:34,072 --> 00:44:36,074
You there!
Come down here!

482
00:44:37,709 --> 00:44:40,746
Come back here!
Come back!

483
00:44:55,827 --> 00:44:57,863
Throw it down!

484
00:45:08,606 --> 00:45:11,777
[ Screaming ]

485
00:45:33,431 --> 00:45:36,201
No!
[ Groans ]

486
00:45:37,268 --> 00:45:39,404
[ Groaning ]

487
00:45:39,470 --> 00:45:41,372
Mahlon. No!
[ Crying ]

488
00:46:19,878 --> 00:46:21,947
[ Exhales ]

489
00:46:23,381 --> 00:46:25,150
How can I thank you?

490
00:46:25,216 --> 00:46:28,019
You must not think of that.

491
00:46:30,055 --> 00:46:31,957
I love you too much to die.

492
00:46:32,023 --> 00:46:34,125
Of course you won't die.

493
00:46:35,827 --> 00:46:37,929
My body wants to.
No.

494
00:46:39,397 --> 00:46:41,432
My bones ache to die.

495
00:46:43,034 --> 00:46:47,005
Think only of living.
Live... so we can marry.

496
00:46:53,044 --> 00:46:56,114
You would marry me?
Yes. Yes.

497
00:47:00,751 --> 00:47:03,021
[ Breathing Shallowly ]

498
00:47:04,122 --> 00:47:06,157
[ Weakly ]
Mother.

499
00:47:07,625 --> 00:47:11,496
Orpah, carry me into the light.

500
00:47:11,562 --> 00:47:15,466
It won't do
to be married
in the dark.

501
00:47:15,533 --> 00:47:18,103
[ Panting ]

502
00:47:18,169 --> 00:47:20,171
Help us.

503
00:47:31,849 --> 00:47:34,319
[ Sighs ]

504
00:47:42,227 --> 00:47:44,595
I have nothing
to bring to you, Mahlon.

505
00:47:44,662 --> 00:47:49,700
You are all the dowry,

506
00:47:49,767 --> 00:47:53,538
the ornament, the gift...

507
00:47:53,604 --> 00:47:56,141
a man could ask.

508
00:47:57,575 --> 00:48:01,512
[ Coughing ]
Mother?

509
00:48:01,579 --> 00:48:04,382
Your ring?

510
00:48:07,352 --> 00:48:09,620
Uh-huh.

511
00:48:14,125 --> 00:48:18,163
I take you, Ruth, for my wife,

512
00:48:20,231 --> 00:48:24,369
according to the law of Moses.

513
00:48:25,870 --> 00:48:28,506
[ Grunts ]

514
00:48:37,748 --> 00:48:39,517
[ Gasps ]

515
00:48:41,186 --> 00:48:44,355
[ Whimpering, Crying ]

516
00:48:57,768 --> 00:48:59,837
We have scoured the city.

517
00:48:59,904 --> 00:49:03,108
The priestess Ruth
and the prisoner
are nowhere to be found.

518
00:49:03,174 --> 00:49:05,176
They seem to have
vanished from sight.

519
00:49:05,243 --> 00:49:08,046
Vanished, yes.
But in what direction?

520
00:49:08,113 --> 00:49:13,284
What direction, my lady?
If you were a priestess and had
just opened a prison gate...

521
00:49:13,351 --> 00:49:15,786
for a cursed Judean,
where would you go?

522
00:49:15,853 --> 00:49:18,223
- Judah, I suppose.
- Ah.

523
00:49:18,289 --> 00:49:21,159
Then suppose you
and your men set out
and overtake them...

524
00:49:21,226 --> 00:49:23,294
and bring them back?

525
00:49:23,361 --> 00:49:27,365
- I will try, my lord.
- Indeed you shall. Now go.

526
00:49:44,315 --> 00:49:48,053
Come, Mother.
Sit.

527
00:49:56,027 --> 00:49:59,164
Rest.
I will bring water.

528
00:50:05,670 --> 00:50:09,240
He taught me to care
about living things,

529
00:50:09,307 --> 00:50:12,710
but he never told me
of the pain of caring.

530
00:50:15,580 --> 00:50:20,218
Pain on entering the world,
anguish on leaving it.

531
00:50:22,653 --> 00:50:26,424
But the interval between
is worth it all.

532
00:50:26,491 --> 00:50:29,927
How can you say that
in such an hour?

533
00:50:29,994 --> 00:50:34,199
Look around you
at this hard wilderness,

534
00:50:34,265 --> 00:50:37,702
and what do you see
but mourning women?

535
00:50:37,768 --> 00:50:41,172
Where is Mahlon's
invisible God of mercy?

536
00:50:41,239 --> 00:50:44,309
Where are his blessings?

537
00:50:53,284 --> 00:50:56,521
You are one of them.

538
00:50:57,788 --> 00:51:00,625
You gave my son joy,

539
00:51:00,691 --> 00:51:04,095
and you sent him away
with peace in his soul.

540
00:51:05,396 --> 00:51:08,099
I am grateful, my lady.

541
00:51:11,869 --> 00:51:16,841
Could you find it
in your heart
to call me Ruth?

542
00:51:22,480 --> 00:51:25,683
Yes. Yes,
I will call you Ruth.

543
00:51:27,885 --> 00:51:32,790
And I will remember you
with tenderness and love.

544
00:51:42,099 --> 00:51:45,603
Where now, Mother?
Where will we go?

545
00:51:45,670 --> 00:51:50,808
There's only one place
I can go, back to Bethlehem.
But you, my daughters--

546
00:51:50,875 --> 00:51:54,979
I shall go with you.
Oh, why should you
come with me?

547
00:51:55,045 --> 00:52:00,618
You are pretty and young,
and many a good man of Moab
would wish to marry you.

548
00:52:00,685 --> 00:52:04,322
And your mother and father,
who love you even as I,

549
00:52:04,389 --> 00:52:08,559
will want you by them
to comfort their old age.

550
00:52:08,626 --> 00:52:11,196
Return, Orpah.

551
00:52:17,935 --> 00:52:21,339
I will do as you bid me.

552
00:52:29,714 --> 00:52:34,352
Farewell, Ruth,
and may the Lord bless you.

553
00:52:35,653 --> 00:52:38,155
I'm not returning.

554
00:52:41,459 --> 00:52:43,861
Kera?

555
00:52:43,928 --> 00:52:47,898
My lady?
You still have kindred
in Ammon?

556
00:52:47,965 --> 00:52:51,736
Two children and my father.
Then go to them.
You are free.

557
00:52:53,204 --> 00:52:56,574
Free, my lady?
Yes.

558
00:52:56,641 --> 00:53:01,746
And I thank you endlessly,
my faithful Kera.

559
00:53:03,414 --> 00:53:06,517
Good-bye, my lady.

560
00:53:09,019 --> 00:53:12,890
Peace, mother of Mahlon.

561
00:53:12,957 --> 00:53:15,593
Find joy, Kera.

562
00:53:19,063 --> 00:53:24,134
If you are not returning,
then where will you go?
With you.

563
00:53:24,201 --> 00:53:27,438
With me? To Bethlehem?

564
00:53:27,505 --> 00:53:30,941
It's a long and
hazardous journey. Who knows?
You might even be pursued.

565
00:53:31,008 --> 00:53:36,481
And then, a Moabitess
in Bethlehem might not
be welcome.

566
00:53:36,547 --> 00:53:39,149
You must go back
with Orpah, my daughter,

567
00:53:39,216 --> 00:53:43,288
and may the Lord
deal kindly with you...

568
00:53:43,354 --> 00:53:47,292
as you have dealt
with the dead
and with me.

569
00:53:50,194 --> 00:53:53,931
I entreat you to return.

570
00:53:53,998 --> 00:53:56,367
Entreat me not to leave you...

571
00:53:56,434 --> 00:53:58,669
or to keep from following you.

572
00:53:58,736 --> 00:54:03,408
For where you go, I will go.
Where you lodge,
I will lodge.

573
00:54:03,474 --> 00:54:07,011
Your people shall be my people.

574
00:54:07,077 --> 00:54:09,380
And your God, my God.

575
00:54:22,192 --> 00:54:25,596
[ Women ]
* Entreat me not
to leave you *

576
00:54:25,663 --> 00:54:30,501
* Or to keep
from following you *

577
00:54:30,568 --> 00:54:35,072
* For where you go *

578
00:54:35,139 --> 00:54:39,877
* I shall go *

579
00:54:39,944 --> 00:54:43,948
* Where you lodge *

580
00:54:44,014 --> 00:54:47,985
* I shall lodge *

581
00:54:48,052 --> 00:54:51,221
* Your people *

582
00:54:51,288 --> 00:54:55,059
* Shall be my people *

583
00:54:55,125 --> 00:54:59,330
* And your God *

584
00:54:59,397 --> 00:55:01,699
* My God **

585
00:56:01,426 --> 00:56:04,328
We crossed near here...

586
00:56:04,395 --> 00:56:07,364
on our way to Moab 10 years ago.

587
00:56:07,432 --> 00:56:10,601
My boys were like
young lions then--

588
00:56:10,668 --> 00:56:12,870
keen and eager
for what lay ahead.

589
00:56:14,672 --> 00:56:16,607
I went where my husband led me.

590
00:56:17,808 --> 00:56:21,612
It was hard to leave Bethlehem.

591
00:56:21,679 --> 00:56:24,849
It is harder to return.

592
00:56:41,566 --> 00:56:44,435
[ Woman Crying ]

593
00:56:48,473 --> 00:56:51,141
[ Crying Continues ]

594
00:56:58,248 --> 00:57:00,485
[ Crying ]

595
00:57:18,402 --> 00:57:21,038
[ Horse Blusters ]

596
00:57:44,762 --> 00:57:47,231
[ Approaching Hoofbeats ]

597
00:57:49,967 --> 00:57:52,503
[ Man Yells ]

598
00:58:02,412 --> 00:58:05,382
[ Grunts ]

599
00:58:05,449 --> 00:58:07,985
[ Horse Nickers ]

600
00:58:08,052 --> 00:58:10,688
We caught him in a wadi.
Two others escaped.

601
00:58:10,755 --> 00:58:14,592
We were hunting, I tell you.
Just hunting.

602
00:58:14,659 --> 00:58:19,029
Unbind him.
He can hardly breathe.

603
00:58:19,096 --> 00:58:21,699
[ Gasping ]

604
00:58:25,169 --> 00:58:27,838
Perhaps you can help us.

605
00:58:27,905 --> 00:58:30,741
These sheep--
How do you suppose
they died?

606
00:58:35,145 --> 00:58:40,117
Maybe from disease.
I heard that pestilence
is spreading.

607
00:58:40,184 --> 00:58:44,855
And the shepherd boy,
did he die from
the sheep's disease too?

608
00:58:44,922 --> 00:58:47,625
Maybe the sun--
the sun.

609
00:58:47,692 --> 00:58:50,260
Yes. It is hot.
You look thirsty.

610
00:58:52,362 --> 00:58:56,667
[ Horse Blusters ]
Have you no regard
for a thirsty man?

611
00:58:56,734 --> 00:58:59,069
Don't you know the teachings
of our fathers?

612
00:58:59,136 --> 00:59:03,173
If your enemy is hungry,
give him meat. If he is thirsty,
give him water.

613
00:59:06,577 --> 00:59:09,546
Thank you, Master.
Thank you.

614
00:59:09,614 --> 00:59:12,950
[ Sighs ]
Not out of a skin.

615
00:59:13,017 --> 00:59:18,055
Fresh, flowing water.
Go down there and drink
at the water hole.

616
00:59:20,524 --> 00:59:23,661
Well, what is it?

617
00:59:23,728 --> 00:59:26,997
I-- I--
I'm not thirsty.

618
00:59:27,064 --> 00:59:29,967
Go down there and drink!
No! No! No!

619
00:59:30,034 --> 00:59:33,437
No! No! No! N--
[ Gulps ]

620
00:59:33,503 --> 00:59:37,107
[ Man Choking ]

621
01:00:06,103 --> 01:00:11,742
[ Moans ]
So should it be
to all Moabites.

622
01:00:11,809 --> 01:00:15,813
And let jackals do the rest.

623
01:00:28,025 --> 01:00:30,895
Poor welcome for you to Judah.

624
01:00:35,065 --> 01:00:39,837
We'll go on
before they ask us
where we've come from.

625
01:00:42,707 --> 01:00:45,910
Then we have lost her.
Yes, Your Majesty.

626
01:00:45,976 --> 01:00:50,915
Ruth, favorite of the king,
priestess of the temple,

627
01:00:50,981 --> 01:00:53,617
not only spurns all Moab,

628
01:00:53,684 --> 01:00:57,654
but delivers a Judean prisoner
from under the noses
of my officers.

629
01:00:59,289 --> 01:01:01,525
Think, Hedak!

630
01:01:01,591 --> 01:01:04,628
It is important for the kingdom
that this priestess
be punished.

631
01:01:04,695 --> 01:01:09,099
As to how,
I'll leave that to you.
Now, go!

632
01:01:32,222 --> 01:01:34,992
[ Chattering ]

633
01:01:47,972 --> 01:01:50,908
[ Goats Bleating ]

634
01:02:09,093 --> 01:02:11,028
Eska?

635
01:02:14,164 --> 01:02:19,804
- Do you remember me?
- Is this Naomi,
wife of Elimelech?

636
01:02:19,870 --> 01:02:21,872
Widow.
Widow?

637
01:02:21,939 --> 01:02:24,842
The Almighty has dealt
very bitterly with me.

638
01:02:24,909 --> 01:02:30,080
It does not go easy
with me either. My Gavram died,
and I'm alone.

639
01:02:30,147 --> 01:02:33,450
Now I must glean
in the fields like
other poor people.

640
01:02:33,517 --> 01:02:36,220
Still, it's better
than starving, even though
you eat only...

641
01:02:36,286 --> 01:02:38,956
what you pick up off the ground.

642
01:02:39,023 --> 01:02:42,192
My daughter-in-law.
Welcome.

643
01:02:42,259 --> 01:02:46,296
You are from one
of the northern tribes?
Benjamin, perhaps?

644
01:02:46,363 --> 01:02:49,766
No. I am from Moab.

645
01:02:49,834 --> 01:02:53,203
Moab. Oh,
don't speak of it.

646
01:02:53,270 --> 01:02:56,974
You think you're bitter.
What with the drought,

647
01:02:57,041 --> 01:03:00,310
oh, there's
enough bitterness here too.

648
01:03:00,377 --> 01:03:03,948
But where are you going to live?
If our old farm
is still standing--

649
01:03:04,014 --> 01:03:09,519
Tsk, tsk. Oh, it's all gone
to ruin. The well is dry,
and the house--

650
01:03:10,988 --> 01:03:13,824
But, still,
it's away from the city.
And for you,

651
01:03:13,891 --> 01:03:16,827
just come from Moab,

652
01:03:16,894 --> 01:03:19,864
it's just as well not
to be seen much.

653
01:03:19,930 --> 01:03:22,566
Eska, are you coming?
Yes, yes. I'm coming.

654
01:03:31,208 --> 01:03:33,477
Do you know who that is?

655
01:03:33,543 --> 01:03:37,781
Naomi...
and her daughter-in-law
from Moab.

656
01:03:37,848 --> 01:03:39,917
[ Women Gasp ]

657
01:04:32,169 --> 01:04:37,141
This, after your comfort
in Moab.

658
01:04:37,207 --> 01:04:39,443
You have taught me
there are other comforts.

659
01:04:41,778 --> 01:04:44,514
Not even a scrap to eat.

660
01:04:44,581 --> 01:04:49,386
My husband had
two kinsmen here,
Boaz and Tob,

661
01:04:49,453 --> 01:04:52,222
both men of means.

662
01:04:52,289 --> 01:04:54,658
Tob would only rebuff me.

663
01:04:54,724 --> 01:05:00,330
My husband was unkind
to him, and as for Boaz--

664
01:05:00,397 --> 01:05:03,400
What about Boaz?

665
01:05:03,467 --> 01:05:08,105
It pains me to tell you,
but he was the man
at the border.

666
01:05:08,172 --> 01:05:11,341
The one who forced
the Moabite to drink?

667
01:05:11,408 --> 01:05:13,543
Then don't go to either
of them, Mother.

668
01:05:13,610 --> 01:05:15,612
But how will we live?

669
01:05:15,679 --> 01:05:19,883
That woman by the well-- If
she can get along by gleaning,
then so can we.

670
01:05:19,950 --> 01:05:22,519
You? You glean?
If they'll let me glean.

671
01:05:22,586 --> 01:05:25,922
It's not a question of letting.
The law gives widows
and poor folk...

672
01:05:25,990 --> 01:05:28,225
the right to glean,
but I wouldn't let you.

673
01:05:28,292 --> 01:05:32,662
Widows and the poor?
Then I'm entitled
twice over.

674
01:05:32,729 --> 01:05:35,065
Oh.

675
01:05:54,284 --> 01:05:56,653
They come fair in Moab.

676
01:05:56,720 --> 01:05:59,389
[ Man #2 ]
And from what I hear,
they go loose.

677
01:05:59,456 --> 01:06:02,559
Shut your mouth.
I'm sorry I told you.

678
01:06:02,626 --> 01:06:05,129
Tell me, what happens
in Moab, brother wise man?

679
01:06:05,195 --> 01:06:07,431
Fertility rites.
The wine flows freely,

680
01:06:07,497 --> 01:06:10,200
and everyone gets
to know everyone else.

681
01:06:10,267 --> 01:06:12,569
[ Man ]
And you must get
to know us better.

682
01:06:14,871 --> 01:06:17,574
The mighty man!

683
01:06:20,144 --> 01:06:22,779
Is that a new gleaner?

684
01:06:22,846 --> 01:06:25,582
Well, she's not old.
[ Chuckles ]

685
01:06:31,155 --> 01:06:34,158
I am Boaz.
Welcome to my field.
Thank you.

686
01:06:34,224 --> 01:06:38,728
Do I have your consent
to gather after the reapers?

687
01:06:38,795 --> 01:06:44,234
On one condition: that you glean
in no other field,
but stay fast here.

688
01:06:44,301 --> 01:06:47,471
You improve the look
of the crop.

689
01:06:47,537 --> 01:06:51,175
And considering the drought,
that would be very helpful.

690
01:06:51,241 --> 01:06:53,910
Have my men been annoying you?

691
01:06:53,977 --> 01:06:58,815
I have managed not to hear them.
I will charge them
not to trouble you.

692
01:06:58,882 --> 01:07:02,619
You let me know if you lack
for anything.
The Lord be with you.

693
01:07:02,686 --> 01:07:06,156
How can the Lord
be with a Moabitess heathen?

694
01:07:06,223 --> 01:07:08,592
Does she think we are made
of stone like her gods--

695
01:07:08,658 --> 01:07:12,562
that her being among us
is not a mockery?

696
01:07:20,470 --> 01:07:24,241
You are a Moabitess?
Yes.

697
01:07:24,308 --> 01:07:27,444
What are you doing in Judah?
I am the widow
of a Judean.

698
01:07:27,511 --> 01:07:30,547
You think that makes you one
of us? There is a law here...

699
01:07:30,614 --> 01:07:34,418
that we shall treat strangers
as we do ourselves,
even Moabites.

700
01:07:34,484 --> 01:07:37,521
It is not my favorite law,
but I obey it.

701
01:07:37,587 --> 01:07:41,158
Do you obey all your laws
so grudgingly?

702
01:07:41,225 --> 01:07:43,793
Our hospitality
is not without limits.

703
01:07:43,860 --> 01:07:47,164
Just make sure you worship none
of your hot-bellied idols here.

704
01:07:47,231 --> 01:07:50,367
We are very short
with idolaters.

705
01:07:50,434 --> 01:07:55,071
Would you then
put my head in a pool
of poisoned water?

706
01:07:55,139 --> 01:07:58,508
- What do you know of that?
- We saw you work justice
in the border village.

707
01:07:58,575 --> 01:08:01,077
Who is "we"?
My mother-in-law
and I.

708
01:08:01,145 --> 01:08:05,282
Naomi, widow of Elimelech.
I came with her
from across the Jordan.

709
01:08:07,951 --> 01:08:11,388
On this side of the Jordan,
we do not coddle murderers
of children.

710
01:08:12,656 --> 01:08:15,259
My husband told me
that your law...

711
01:08:15,325 --> 01:08:19,095
requires at least
two eyewitnesses
to any mortal crime.

712
01:08:19,163 --> 01:08:22,899
Where were your witnesses?
I will not be preached to
by a Moabitess,

713
01:08:22,966 --> 01:08:25,269
especially one whom
I suffer to glean in my field.

714
01:08:25,335 --> 01:08:27,871
Suffer no more.

715
01:08:27,937 --> 01:08:32,209
I have a widow's right
to glean here. I do not
need your consent.

716
01:08:32,276 --> 01:08:36,280
The only kindness I ask
is that you and your hirelings
leave me to my work.

717
01:08:38,248 --> 01:08:40,684
So be it!

718
01:08:58,868 --> 01:09:03,207
I'll never go back
to his field.
I'll glean elsewhere.

719
01:09:03,273 --> 01:09:06,243
I'd rather eat
grains of sand
than his barley.

720
01:09:06,310 --> 01:09:11,315
I don't understand.
The folly, the blindness
of hating all of the people.

721
01:09:11,381 --> 01:09:15,652
As though Moab were
a great serpent and
every Moabite a serpent's egg.

722
01:09:15,719 --> 01:09:18,922
You spoke
of another kinsman.
What is he like?

723
01:09:18,988 --> 01:09:22,959
Tob? The stars
are not as distant
as that man.

724
01:09:23,026 --> 01:09:26,330
In what way?
In every way.

725
01:09:33,703 --> 01:09:37,173
I am sent by the house of Boaz.

726
01:09:37,241 --> 01:09:41,445
- What have you there?
- Oil and barley,
figs and olives.

727
01:09:41,511 --> 01:09:45,181
- Please return them.
- You don't want it?

728
01:09:45,249 --> 01:09:47,951
Neither of you?

729
01:09:48,017 --> 01:09:51,355
Of course, I have no right
to speak for your share.

730
01:09:52,522 --> 01:09:55,191
Take it back and
thank your master.

731
01:10:03,833 --> 01:10:06,770
[ Sighs ]

732
01:10:10,607 --> 01:10:13,877
Which of the two
refused?
Both.

733
01:10:13,943 --> 01:10:16,846
What did
the young one say?
The young one?

734
01:10:16,913 --> 01:10:20,717
"Please return them."
Return them, huh?

735
01:10:20,784 --> 01:10:25,689
Well, they'll accept
these provisions and more.

736
01:10:40,437 --> 01:10:43,407
Ruth, come. Look.

737
01:10:46,476 --> 01:10:49,579
It's back again, and more of it.

738
01:10:55,885 --> 01:10:59,088
The Lord be with you,
Naomi, and welcome home.

739
01:10:59,155 --> 01:11:01,658
Thank you, Boaz.

740
01:11:01,725 --> 01:11:04,728
I'm sorry to hear
about your family.

741
01:11:04,794 --> 01:11:07,831
Am I to take this
as some kind of apology?
For what?

742
01:11:07,897 --> 01:11:10,567
For publicly
insulting my daughter, Ruth.
As the Lord lives,

743
01:11:10,634 --> 01:11:13,503
you insult me and say
I owe you an apology?

744
01:11:13,570 --> 01:11:16,072
I don't like an offer of food
thrown back in my face.

745
01:11:16,139 --> 01:11:20,310
I don't like charity thrown in
mine. Who gave you the right to
tell Ruth she was not welcome?

746
01:11:20,377 --> 01:11:24,614
We were born and raised into
that right. I cannot pretend
to welcome anyone from her land.

747
01:11:24,681 --> 01:11:28,017
Don't pretend to welcome me.
You're a Judean.
She's a stranger.

748
01:11:28,084 --> 01:11:31,388
You chose to forget the law
that strangers must be welcomed
among us.

749
01:11:31,455 --> 01:11:34,023
Be that as it may--

750
01:11:39,596 --> 01:11:43,066
I didn't mean to shout.

751
01:11:43,132 --> 01:11:46,436
This is no way for a man
to welcome a kinswoman.

752
01:11:46,503 --> 01:11:48,605
I spoke in anger.

753
01:11:51,040 --> 01:11:56,646
So did I, Boaz. For years,
I've carried a warm image
of you in my heart.

754
01:11:56,713 --> 01:12:00,417
I'm disappointed
to find you changed.

755
01:12:00,484 --> 01:12:04,354
Well, a man is what he is.

756
01:12:09,092 --> 01:12:12,396
Let him be what he wants to be.

757
01:12:14,030 --> 01:12:17,801
In the meantime,
no use leaving this food
for the ants.

758
01:12:31,715 --> 01:12:35,151
Well, it seems the Moabitess
has left us for Tob's acres.

759
01:12:35,218 --> 01:12:37,954
A good thing.
Thank the Lord.

760
01:12:49,198 --> 01:12:54,704
- [ Huphim ]
Is that Boaz riding up?
- Yes. Think of the honor.

761
01:12:54,771 --> 01:12:58,074
As though the holy ark
itself were coming
to my door.

762
01:12:58,141 --> 01:13:00,076
Let old wounds be.

763
01:13:06,916 --> 01:13:10,687
Peace be with you.
Peace to you.

764
01:13:10,754 --> 01:13:15,158
Have you come to give back the
field that rightfully belongs
to me and the water with it?

765
01:13:15,224 --> 01:13:19,162
No, Tob, and I haven't
come to hear you complain
of it either.

766
01:13:19,228 --> 01:13:22,832
- Then what do you want?
- Do you remember
our kinswoman Naomi?

767
01:13:22,899 --> 01:13:26,736
Quite well.
Who could forget her?
And our beloved Elimelech.

768
01:13:26,803 --> 01:13:29,606
Elimelech is dead,
he and his sons.

769
01:13:29,673 --> 01:13:33,677
Naomi has come back
with a Moabite daughter-in-law,
and they need help.

770
01:13:33,743 --> 01:13:36,345
- Then help them.
- They won't accept it
from me.

771
01:13:36,412 --> 01:13:39,616
I had some hard words
with the Moabitess,
and you are closer kin than I.

772
01:13:41,150 --> 01:13:44,320
I may be closer kin,
but I'm no less a Judean
than you.

773
01:13:44,387 --> 01:13:46,932
Just because you go out
with your border guard is
no reason for me...

774
01:13:46,956 --> 01:13:50,193
to sanction any Moabite
you let into our land.

775
01:13:50,259 --> 01:13:52,838
- I don't like Moabites
any more than you.
- But we can't let them...

776
01:13:52,862 --> 01:13:55,499
glean or beg or go hungry.

777
01:13:55,565 --> 01:13:57,867
I can.
But they're our kinsfolk,
Tob.

778
01:13:57,934 --> 01:14:00,904
If you won't help them,
then let me do it through you.

779
01:14:00,970 --> 01:14:04,841
- You owe Naomi that much.
- I owe her nothing.

780
01:14:04,908 --> 01:14:08,512
She has suffered much.
Don't waste my time
on pity for Naomi.

781
01:14:08,578 --> 01:14:11,156
And as for the Moabitess,
you can tell her from me--
You can tell her yourself.

782
01:14:11,180 --> 01:14:15,819
She's gleaning
in your field now.
I will.

783
01:14:15,885 --> 01:14:19,623
The law protects gleaners,
remember.
Law or no law.

784
01:14:19,689 --> 01:14:22,058
[ Horse Blusters ]

785
01:14:28,798 --> 01:14:31,568
Where is the Moabitess?

786
01:15:04,467 --> 01:15:07,136
[ Approaching Hoofbeats ]

787
01:15:14,510 --> 01:15:16,980
Why, it's Tob.

788
01:15:18,682 --> 01:15:22,385
Peace, Naomi.
Peace, Tob.

789
01:15:22,451 --> 01:15:24,954
Come in.

790
01:15:25,021 --> 01:15:29,158
Naomi,
you have wounded me.
I? How?

791
01:15:29,225 --> 01:15:31,961
You've been here for days,
and you didn't let me know.

792
01:15:32,028 --> 01:15:35,799
Well--
Is that any way
to treat a kinsman?

793
01:15:35,865 --> 01:15:40,303
And who is this lovely--
My daughter-in-law
Ruth.

794
01:15:40,369 --> 01:15:43,707
She's a Moabitess.

795
01:15:43,773 --> 01:15:46,442
You say that
as though it were an apology.

796
01:15:46,509 --> 01:15:50,814
Don't you know
our sacred teaching that we are
to treat strangers as ourselves?

797
01:15:50,880 --> 01:15:54,283
Yes, I know.
I'm glad you've
not forgotten.

798
01:15:54,350 --> 01:15:58,054
Oh, I have a good memory.
In fact, I've thought
about you many times.

799
01:15:58,121 --> 01:16:02,692
I was concerned
about your family,
and now you returned--

800
01:16:02,759 --> 01:16:06,763
after the sad events in Moab--
and you hide yourself.

801
01:16:06,830 --> 01:16:08,865
Well, there's
a little matter of pride.

802
01:16:08,932 --> 01:16:13,102
With one's own family?
Oh.

803
01:16:13,169 --> 01:16:17,340
Forgive me, but this is no way
for the widow of Elimelech
to live.

804
01:16:17,406 --> 01:16:22,345
I'm going to send my workmen
to repair the roof, patch
these walls and work your land.

805
01:16:22,411 --> 01:16:24,881
I'll send food and clothing too.

806
01:16:24,948 --> 01:16:28,384
The years of prosperity
have mellowed you.

807
01:16:28,451 --> 01:16:30,787
Even a cabbage ripens.

808
01:16:30,854 --> 01:16:33,790
Well, I was
just passing by.
I must go now.

809
01:16:33,857 --> 01:16:37,326
Good day, Naomi.
Good day, Ruth.

810
01:16:40,163 --> 01:16:42,666
Have peace.

811
01:16:42,732 --> 01:16:45,201
Peace, Tob.

812
01:16:47,904 --> 01:16:50,373
And you feared
he would rebuff you.

813
01:16:50,439 --> 01:16:54,610
Why, he's as warm
as Boaz is cold.

814
01:16:54,678 --> 01:16:59,983
Maybe one is too cold
and the other too warm.

815
01:17:08,057 --> 01:17:12,796
Naomi! Oh,
never carry such burdens.

816
01:17:12,862 --> 01:17:15,531
While I'm away,
you must let my workmen
do it for you.

817
01:17:15,598 --> 01:17:19,703
You are leaving?
Not for long.
I go to Hebron to buy sheep.

818
01:17:19,769 --> 01:17:24,407
Now, in my absence, you and
Naomi must not hesitate to ask
my men if you lack for anything.

819
01:17:24,473 --> 01:17:28,111
I have instructed them.
Your kindness! I can't
begin to thank--

820
01:17:28,177 --> 01:17:30,179
Oh, not a word.

821
01:17:30,246 --> 01:17:35,218
And when I return, I hope you
will know even more fully the
bounties of kinship in Judah.

822
01:17:40,690 --> 01:17:42,826
Naomi.

823
01:18:09,753 --> 01:18:12,555
[ Chuckles ]
Look at the little one.

824
01:18:12,621 --> 01:18:15,358
[ Ruth ]
A baby.

825
01:18:27,270 --> 01:18:30,673
[ Oxen Braying ]
[ Goats Bleating ]

826
01:18:30,740 --> 01:18:35,244
Where we come from,
it's being said there is
an idolatress among you.

827
01:18:35,311 --> 01:18:40,183
A Moabite priestess.
There is
no Moabite priestess here.

828
01:18:40,249 --> 01:18:43,352
You do not speak
like Judeans. Where
do you come from?

829
01:18:43,419 --> 01:18:47,757
From Reuben,
near the border of Ammon.
What is it you've heard?

830
01:18:47,824 --> 01:18:51,060
I heard this idolatress
came with a Judean woman.

831
01:18:51,127 --> 01:18:54,630
Said to be the widow
of a man named Elimelech.

832
01:18:54,697 --> 01:18:59,268
He means Naomi.
Naomi did bring a Moabitess
with her.

833
01:18:59,335 --> 01:19:02,806
What business is it of you
in Reuben who comes here?

834
01:19:02,872 --> 01:19:08,211
No business at all.
I just mentioned the rumor
and nothing more.

835
01:19:12,949 --> 01:19:16,585
[ No Audible Dialogue ]

836
01:19:16,652 --> 01:19:19,555
[ Low Chattering ]

837
01:19:19,622 --> 01:19:22,792
[ Chattering ]

838
01:20:05,168 --> 01:20:09,738
Water is scarce.
We have none
for idolaters.

839
01:20:09,805 --> 01:20:13,376
Why don't you ask
your stone god for water?

840
01:20:13,442 --> 01:20:16,279
She's an idolatress.
Curse her, Ben-Nadab.

841
01:20:16,345 --> 01:20:20,183
Call the vengeance
of God down on her.
Idols.

842
01:20:20,249 --> 01:20:22,285
God has said
ye shall make no idols,

843
01:20:22,351 --> 01:20:24,988
nor set any image
of stone in your land.

844
01:20:25,054 --> 01:20:29,993
If ye despise his statutes
and abhor his judgments,
ye shall lose your children.

845
01:20:30,059 --> 01:20:34,563
- Your cattle shall be destroyed!
- Guilt is written
across her face.

846
01:20:34,630 --> 01:20:38,067
She can say nothing.
[ Woman ]
Where are your idols?

847
01:20:38,134 --> 01:20:43,472
Take your stone idols
and leave our land before
God strikes you dead.

848
01:20:43,539 --> 01:20:47,210
You are a hateful woman.
You are not worthy
to speak God's name.

849
01:20:49,979 --> 01:20:52,248
[ Boaz ]
Leave her alone!

850
01:20:53,716 --> 01:20:56,252
Get along.
Don't stare.

851
01:20:56,319 --> 01:20:59,255
When you've
got your water, leave.

852
01:21:08,331 --> 01:21:11,100
Don't ever trust this
to a woman, Ben-Nadab.

853
01:21:11,167 --> 01:21:13,236
Confess thy iniquity!

854
01:21:13,302 --> 01:21:18,041
Fear the Lord, for he will send
his pestilence among you and
destroy your idols and cast--

855
01:21:18,107 --> 01:21:21,044
Yes, yes, old man.
I know.

856
01:21:21,110 --> 01:21:25,548
God's blessings on thee
and you too.

857
01:21:25,614 --> 01:21:27,883
Peace be with you.

858
01:21:27,951 --> 01:21:31,454
Poor old madman.

859
01:22:02,018 --> 01:22:07,156
Thank you, Boaz.
Thank you for your kindness.

860
01:22:13,896 --> 01:22:16,399
Come.

861
01:22:24,673 --> 01:22:28,477
Since I bring nothing
with me this time, perhaps
you'll not turn me away.

862
01:22:28,544 --> 01:22:31,147
We turn nobody away
who comes in peace.

863
01:22:31,214 --> 01:22:34,083
Come.
Break bread with us.
Thank you. I've eaten.

864
01:22:34,150 --> 01:22:37,153
Then sit and join us.

865
01:22:39,855 --> 01:22:43,059
I've been thinking
about what happened
at the well.

866
01:22:43,126 --> 01:22:46,262
Why?
What happened?

867
01:22:46,329 --> 01:22:51,534
Well, uh-- Well, nothing really.
We simply met there by chance,
and I asked if I could come by.

868
01:22:51,600 --> 01:22:56,472
I should've mentioned
it was Boaz who
caught the runaway.

869
01:22:56,539 --> 01:23:00,409
The donkey.
Yes, well,
don't make me a hero.

870
01:23:00,476 --> 01:23:03,579
The beast came
running at me, and--

871
01:23:03,646 --> 01:23:08,051
So in gratitude,
you invited our kinsman
to visit us.

872
01:23:08,117 --> 01:23:10,353
Well, I'm pleased.

873
01:23:10,419 --> 01:23:14,190
Perhaps you'll
have some wine with us,
Boaz. Excuse me.

874
01:23:20,896 --> 01:23:23,432
I didn't tell her
because it would only
have worried her.

875
01:23:25,268 --> 01:23:28,071
What did Mahlon
tell you about us Judeans?

876
01:23:28,137 --> 01:23:30,606
Enough to bring me here.

877
01:23:30,673 --> 01:23:34,410
Did he explain our hatred
of Moab?
No.

878
01:23:34,477 --> 01:23:38,814
There was no malice
in his heart. He hated
nothing except cruelty.

879
01:23:38,881 --> 01:23:44,120
Well, there has been
a long, hard history
between our countries:

880
01:23:44,187 --> 01:23:47,490
wars, loathing
of each other's gods.

881
01:23:47,556 --> 01:23:50,893
Some of us lost parents
and brothers to Moab.

882
01:23:50,959 --> 01:23:53,562
Others lost children,
as you saw on your way
to Bethlehem.

883
01:23:53,629 --> 01:23:59,268
Does it surprise you
that that's in our blood,
to fear and hate Moabites?

884
01:23:59,335 --> 01:24:03,239
And you are content
with that?
I was.

885
01:24:03,306 --> 01:24:07,276
Was?
I used to think that hate
belonged in our blood.

886
01:24:07,343 --> 01:24:10,913
And now?
Now I'm not so certain.

887
01:24:10,979 --> 01:24:14,417
But others are though.
Only a few--

888
01:24:14,483 --> 01:24:17,353
those who forgot the teachings
of our fathers...

889
01:24:17,420 --> 01:24:20,523
and those who are
as bitter as I was.

890
01:24:20,589 --> 01:24:23,092
Like the women
at the well.
Yes.

891
01:24:23,159 --> 01:24:28,097
And that's why I've come here.
You must leave Judah,
Ruth, at least for a while.

892
01:24:28,164 --> 01:24:32,535
Go north to one of
our other tribes, where people
are not molested by Moabites,

893
01:24:32,601 --> 01:24:35,171
not inflamed and ready
to cast blame on a scapegoat.

894
01:24:35,238 --> 01:24:40,109
Go, Ruth.
I will see you and Naomi
safely there.

895
01:24:40,176 --> 01:24:43,546
No. Naomi's home
is here.

896
01:24:43,612 --> 01:24:47,116
If she and I
are strangers in Judah,

897
01:24:47,183 --> 01:24:50,018
we should be
even more alien elsewhere.

898
01:24:50,085 --> 01:24:53,989
Beside, would another tribe
be any quicker than
your people to believe...

899
01:24:54,056 --> 01:24:59,362
why I left Moab
and came to this side
of the Jordan?

900
01:24:59,428 --> 01:25:02,097
Why did you come here, Ruth?

901
01:25:02,165 --> 01:25:05,734
Because you love Naomi?
And?

902
01:25:08,070 --> 01:25:11,774
And because I saw
a new light in her beliefs,
in her God.

903
01:25:15,578 --> 01:25:18,247
Ruth, I've never
seen the people so aroused.

904
01:25:18,314 --> 01:25:22,050
You must not go
to the marketplace
or even to the well alone.

905
01:25:22,117 --> 01:25:27,456
If I'm to stay here,
I must go everywhere alone
and unafraid,

906
01:25:27,523 --> 01:25:30,759
or they'll think
I'm all they suspect
of me.

907
01:25:30,826 --> 01:25:33,862
After a while, perhaps,
but not now.
Please let me help.

908
01:25:35,464 --> 01:25:37,566
It is not the first time
I've offered to help.

909
01:25:37,633 --> 01:25:41,136
You accepted only from Tob.
He never threatened.

910
01:25:41,204 --> 01:25:44,207
Nor shall I ever again.

911
01:25:44,273 --> 01:25:47,210
What made you change?

912
01:25:47,276 --> 01:25:51,380
A number of things.
Mostly you.

913
01:25:51,447 --> 01:25:56,819
Seeing myself
through your eyes.
I think I needed that.

914
01:25:56,885 --> 01:26:00,656
- Thank you.
- I suppose it would be
unseemly of me...

915
01:26:00,723 --> 01:26:03,692
to compete with Tob
in ephahs of barley
and casks of oil.

916
01:26:03,759 --> 01:26:07,663
But I have the right
to ask one thing of you.

917
01:26:07,730 --> 01:26:11,467
Promise me that if you
and Naomi ever need help,
help of any kind,

918
01:26:12,901 --> 01:26:16,272
you will come to me.

919
01:26:16,339 --> 01:26:19,608
Thank you again.
Don't thank me.
Promise.

920
01:26:19,675 --> 01:26:22,245
I promise.

921
01:26:24,913 --> 01:26:29,885
You'll be angry, but after
all the trouble you've taken,
I must go back to my fields.

922
01:26:29,952 --> 01:26:32,655
You cannot have one cup
with us, Boaz?
I'm late now.

923
01:26:32,721 --> 01:26:36,525
One of Tob's
honey cakes, perhaps?
Oh, now I must go.

924
01:26:36,592 --> 01:26:40,296
Peace, Naomi.
Peace be with you, Ruth.

925
01:26:55,644 --> 01:26:57,880
That is the Boaz I remembered.

926
01:26:57,946 --> 01:27:02,318
Oh, Mother,
he's so different from
the way he was before.

927
01:27:02,385 --> 01:27:06,255
He's so--
so very likable.

928
01:27:06,322 --> 01:27:10,025
Or is it only
his wanting to help...

929
01:27:10,092 --> 01:27:12,561
that makes me think I--

930
01:27:12,628 --> 01:27:15,598
well, makes me feel
the way I do?

931
01:27:15,664 --> 01:27:20,235
No, Ruth.
It is not that.
How can you mistake what it is?

932
01:27:36,018 --> 01:27:39,588
[ Naomi ] What do you want
here? Who gave you the right
to trample on my grounds?

933
01:27:39,655 --> 01:27:44,059
Where are the idols?
Bring out the idols.
There are no idols.

934
01:27:44,126 --> 01:27:47,430
You brought
that idol worshipper
into our midst.

935
01:27:47,496 --> 01:27:51,500
- Tell her about the wells.
- Our cattle are dying
because of her.

936
01:27:51,567 --> 01:27:54,269
What are you saying?
Why because of her?

937
01:27:54,337 --> 01:27:58,240
God has shown his anger
ever since she came.
Yes, and if our children suffer,

938
01:27:58,307 --> 01:28:00,242
their blood will be
on your head.

939
01:28:00,309 --> 01:28:03,746
We'll all perish
unless you rid us of her.
The idols are in the house.

940
01:28:03,812 --> 01:28:06,982
Not one more step.
If you have complaints,

941
01:28:07,049 --> 01:28:09,385
take them to Shammah
and the elders
and let them judge.

942
01:28:09,452 --> 01:28:14,323
And leave us alone.
Indeed we will make our voices
heard by the elders,

943
01:28:14,390 --> 01:28:17,430
and when we're through
with our complaints, there'll
be very little comfort...

944
01:28:17,493 --> 01:28:21,063
left for you or time for you.

945
01:28:21,129 --> 01:28:22,965
Come! Let us go
to Shammah!

946
01:28:39,715 --> 01:28:42,985
Don't fear, Mother.
I do fear.

947
01:28:43,051 --> 01:28:47,723
There's no charge greater
than idolatry.
It's a stoning offense.

948
01:28:47,790 --> 01:28:51,760
I don't know
where to turn, what to do.

949
01:28:54,530 --> 01:28:57,633
Mother, I shall go to Boaz.

950
01:28:57,700 --> 01:29:00,936
He said he would help.
Yes.

951
01:29:01,003 --> 01:29:04,573
You heard him.
He made a promise to come
if we needed help.

952
01:29:04,640 --> 01:29:09,545
Yes. Go, my daughter.
Ask his help.

953
01:29:21,256 --> 01:29:26,595
You have come
to see my master?
I have great need to see him.

954
01:29:26,662 --> 01:29:30,132
He was just summoned
to the council of elders.

955
01:29:31,867 --> 01:29:35,070
I will take you there.
Thank you.

956
01:29:37,473 --> 01:29:40,108
[ Bleating ]

957
01:29:55,424 --> 01:29:57,560
[ Murmuring ]

958
01:30:10,973 --> 01:30:12,841
I know what happened.
It's shameful.

959
01:30:12,908 --> 01:30:15,611
The judges are
as disturbed about it
as I am.

960
01:30:15,678 --> 01:30:17,212
We're meeting now.

961
01:30:17,279 --> 01:30:19,748
Fear nothing.

962
01:30:23,318 --> 01:30:24,887
You had better wait for me.

963
01:30:27,956 --> 01:30:29,492
It's not a question of opinion.

964
01:30:29,558 --> 01:30:32,861
It's your duty
to convene the elders and sit
in judgment of the widow.

965
01:30:32,928 --> 01:30:34,597
Do you agree with that?
Yes.

966
01:30:34,663 --> 01:30:36,832
And do you, Boaz?
By all means.

967
01:30:36,899 --> 01:30:39,635
The widow Hagah has
shamefully violated
one of our most--

968
01:30:39,702 --> 01:30:42,037
We're not speaking of Hagah,
but of Ruth.

969
01:30:42,104 --> 01:30:45,340
Ruth?

970
01:30:45,407 --> 01:30:48,944
Hagah and her rabble
viciously attack
two peace-abiding women,

971
01:30:49,011 --> 01:30:51,313
and you're going to sit
in judgment of Ruth?

972
01:30:51,379 --> 01:30:54,325
The actions of Hagah
and the others are a disgrace.
They will be reprimanded.

973
01:30:54,349 --> 01:30:57,686
But the charges that
have been brought against
the Moabitess are very--

974
01:30:57,753 --> 01:31:00,523
Moabitess!
She is no longer
a Moabitess.

975
01:31:00,589 --> 01:31:02,891
And I, for one, will not
consent to judge a woman...

976
01:31:02,958 --> 01:31:04,727
for fetching water
from a public well.

977
01:31:04,793 --> 01:31:06,962
Do not mock us, Boaz.

978
01:31:07,029 --> 01:31:10,766
You younger judges are here
only because your fathers gave
their blood to uphold our laws.

979
01:31:10,833 --> 01:31:13,769
If this woman is innocent,

980
01:31:13,836 --> 01:31:17,172
if she is not
an idolatress,
she will be free.

981
01:31:17,239 --> 01:31:20,142
But if she is guilty,

982
01:31:20,208 --> 01:31:23,579
it is our duty to see
that she is punished
according to the law.

983
01:31:23,646 --> 01:31:27,449
- Innocent or guilty,
I will not judge her.
- You are going to defy the law?

984
01:31:27,516 --> 01:31:31,086
- You would put us to scorn
and divide the city?
- I will not judge her!

985
01:31:31,153 --> 01:31:36,358
Boaz, the people count on
the wisdom of their elders
to seek out truth.

986
01:31:36,424 --> 01:31:38,594
Do not contemn
the judges of Judah.

987
01:31:38,661 --> 01:31:41,063
Ruth is the daughter
of my kinswoman Naomi.

988
01:31:41,129 --> 01:31:44,933
I cannot--
I will not judge her!
How little you fear God.

989
01:31:45,000 --> 01:31:47,970
What if Abraham,
when God commanded that
he sacrifice Isaac,

990
01:31:48,036 --> 01:31:50,505
replied,
"No, Isaac is my only son.
I cannot do this"?

991
01:31:50,573 --> 01:31:53,676
Leave Isaac to Abraham
and Abraham to God,
and leave me to myself!

992
01:31:53,742 --> 01:31:55,711
Blasphemy.
Then judge me too.

993
01:31:55,778 --> 01:31:59,514
What if it is true
that Ruth has been a priestess
in the temple of Chemosh,

994
01:31:59,582 --> 01:32:01,717
as is rumored?

995
01:32:01,784 --> 01:32:03,986
A priestess?
[ Scoffs ]

996
01:32:04,052 --> 01:32:06,655
The wife of a Judean
who renounced idolatry,

997
01:32:06,722 --> 01:32:08,957
who, of her own free will,
chose to come among us...

998
01:32:09,024 --> 01:32:11,326
with her destitute,
bereaved mother-in-law--

999
01:32:11,393 --> 01:32:14,362
You ask me to believe that
this gleaner in our fields...

1000
01:32:14,429 --> 01:32:17,132
was once a priestess of Chemosh?

1001
01:32:17,199 --> 01:32:21,069
If it could be proven,
would you judge her?

1002
01:32:21,136 --> 01:32:25,007
If it can be proven
that Ruth was a priestess
in the temple of Chemosh,

1003
01:32:25,073 --> 01:32:28,276
I will be the first
to sit in judgment of her.

1004
01:32:28,343 --> 01:32:30,278
Will you swear it?
I swear it.

1005
01:32:30,345 --> 01:32:32,280
That's all we ask.

1006
01:32:32,347 --> 01:32:36,251
I hope it never comes to pass
that your oath binds you.
It will not.

1007
01:32:39,321 --> 01:32:41,456
[ Sighs ]
It's absurd.

1008
01:32:41,523 --> 01:32:45,527
There is marketplace gossip
that you were once a priestess
in the temple of Chemosh.

1009
01:32:45,594 --> 01:32:50,666
I was. But what have they
decided to do about those
who threatened Naomi?

1010
01:32:50,733 --> 01:32:54,703
Are they going
to judge them?
No. To judge you.

1011
01:32:58,674 --> 01:33:01,343
And... will you
sit with them?

1012
01:33:03,646 --> 01:33:05,781
I must.

1013
01:33:09,251 --> 01:33:11,386
[ Gasps ]

1014
01:33:11,453 --> 01:33:13,355
Let her go in peace.

1015
01:33:27,636 --> 01:33:29,738
[ Sobbing ]

1016
01:33:29,805 --> 01:33:32,074
What happened?

1017
01:33:32,140 --> 01:33:34,076
Bo-- Boaz!

1018
01:33:34,142 --> 01:33:36,344
[ Sobbing ]

1019
01:33:36,411 --> 01:33:38,647
He will not help?

1020
01:33:44,186 --> 01:33:46,221
[ Crying ]

1021
01:33:55,597 --> 01:33:57,700
I am weary, O God.

1022
01:33:59,067 --> 01:34:00,803
Weary of life.

1023
01:34:00,869 --> 01:34:02,938
Weary of calamity.

1024
01:34:06,041 --> 01:34:10,345
My husband
taken from me--
my sons.

1025
01:34:10,412 --> 01:34:12,280
My daughter--

1026
01:34:13,982 --> 01:34:16,051
I've blighted her life.

1027
01:34:17,652 --> 01:34:20,422
Out of love for me,

1028
01:34:20,488 --> 01:34:23,258
she is defamed and humiliated.

1029
01:34:27,595 --> 01:34:30,098
O Lord, I entreat thee.

1030
01:34:31,700 --> 01:34:35,003
Do what you want with me,
but spare her,

1031
01:34:35,971 --> 01:34:38,974
that her days of grief...

1032
01:34:39,041 --> 01:34:41,710
will not be without ending.

1033
01:34:44,612 --> 01:34:46,882
[ Quiet Crying ]

1034
01:35:46,574 --> 01:35:48,310
Peace be with you.

1035
01:35:51,346 --> 01:35:53,015
Who are you?

1036
01:35:54,482 --> 01:35:56,184
Jehoam.

1037
01:36:01,623 --> 01:36:03,325
Are you a holy man?

1038
01:36:04,993 --> 01:36:07,262
We are all holy
in the eyes of God.

1039
01:36:11,666 --> 01:36:14,569
There will be water
for many wells.

1040
01:36:14,636 --> 01:36:16,404
Many wells.

1041
01:36:22,677 --> 01:36:24,379
Trouble your heart no more.

1042
01:36:29,017 --> 01:36:32,054
Be strong through this time,

1043
01:36:32,120 --> 01:36:35,023
for from the widow of your son
will issue children...

1044
01:36:35,090 --> 01:36:36,959
and children's children,

1045
01:36:37,025 --> 01:36:41,229
numbering among them
a great king
and a royal house...

1046
01:36:41,296 --> 01:36:45,267
and a prophet whom many
will worship as the Messiah.

1047
01:36:48,103 --> 01:36:51,406
Can you spare bread
for a hungry traveler?

1048
01:37:21,736 --> 01:37:24,239
[ Thunderclap ]

1049
01:37:45,027 --> 01:37:47,595
[ Thunderclap ]

1050
01:37:49,131 --> 01:37:51,533
If 3,000 of our people
were put to death...

1051
01:37:51,599 --> 01:37:54,236
for only once
having worshipped
a golden calf,

1052
01:37:54,302 --> 01:37:57,172
than shall a Moabitess
who worshipped Chemosh
all her life...

1053
01:37:57,239 --> 01:37:59,441
be spared for a worse iniquity?

1054
01:37:59,507 --> 01:38:01,876
As the Lord lives,
I will sit quiet
no longer!

1055
01:38:01,944 --> 01:38:04,479
What if she had been
a priestess in Moab?

1056
01:38:04,546 --> 01:38:06,714
She was not then
under the law
of our land,

1057
01:38:06,781 --> 01:38:10,318
but of another land--
the land that had
given her birth--

1058
01:38:10,385 --> 01:38:13,188
and that was in the far past.

1059
01:38:13,255 --> 01:38:17,125
She is now
a true daughter of Judah.
We shall soon find out.

1060
01:38:17,192 --> 01:38:22,097
Will the Moabitess Ruth
deny that she worshipped
false gods across the Jordan?

1061
01:38:22,164 --> 01:38:25,533
So did Zipporah,
the wife of Moses,
worship false gods.

1062
01:38:25,600 --> 01:38:28,636
Was not her father
a priest in the service
of an alien god?

1063
01:38:28,703 --> 01:38:31,839
If the Lord our God accepts,
who are we to refuse?

1064
01:38:31,906 --> 01:38:35,443
Wait. We shall see whether
the Lord our God accepts.

1065
01:38:35,510 --> 01:38:38,213
Did you instruct children
in the rituals of Chemosh?

1066
01:38:38,280 --> 01:38:40,515
Yes.
[ Crowd Murmuring ]

1067
01:38:40,582 --> 01:38:45,187
Did you teach them
that to die for Chemosh
was noble and good?

1068
01:38:45,253 --> 01:38:48,323
Yes.
Did you lead them
to the altar to be slain?

1069
01:38:48,390 --> 01:38:50,825
Yes.

1070
01:38:50,892 --> 01:38:53,695
[ Murmuring Continues ]

1071
01:38:53,761 --> 01:38:57,232
And did you not
then stand by and watch
their bodies thrown...

1072
01:38:57,299 --> 01:38:59,501
into the flames of Chemosh?

1073
01:38:59,567 --> 01:39:01,336
Yes.

1074
01:39:05,307 --> 01:39:08,643
When did you last
perform these rites?

1075
01:39:10,212 --> 01:39:13,581
Speak. Was it
a very long time ago?

1076
01:39:13,648 --> 01:39:15,883
Years ago?

1077
01:39:15,950 --> 01:39:18,853
No. It was within
past months.

1078
01:39:18,920 --> 01:39:21,089
[ Shocked Murmuring ]

1079
01:39:23,225 --> 01:39:26,494
Is this what Boaz
calls "the far past"?

1080
01:39:30,365 --> 01:39:32,334
[ Shammah ]
Well, Boaz?

1081
01:39:44,046 --> 01:39:48,083
If Boaz has naught to say,
then I do.

1082
01:39:50,352 --> 01:39:53,055
I have just returned
to the city from afield...

1083
01:39:53,121 --> 01:39:55,890
to find talk of stoning
among us.

1084
01:39:55,957 --> 01:39:57,925
Are we so thirsty for blood...

1085
01:39:57,992 --> 01:40:01,663
that we must accuse
a woman of a crime to which
there is no proof?

1086
01:40:01,729 --> 01:40:05,367
The proof was
in the calamity that fell
on us when she came.

1087
01:40:05,433 --> 01:40:08,436
Did the rains
not wet you, woman?
The drought has ended.

1088
01:40:08,503 --> 01:40:11,273
Our crops have been spared.
We'll have a richer harvest
than ever.

1089
01:40:12,607 --> 01:40:15,977
Shammah, Judges,
people of Bethlehem,

1090
01:40:16,044 --> 01:40:19,447
we have been taught
that every accused person
comes to judgment...

1091
01:40:19,514 --> 01:40:21,316
pure of guilt...

1092
01:40:21,383 --> 01:40:23,651
until his wrongdoing is proven.

1093
01:40:23,718 --> 01:40:28,756
Our law demands at least
two eyewitnesses to any crime
performed upon our soil.

1094
01:40:28,823 --> 01:40:32,294
Where are the two?
Where is one?

1095
01:40:32,360 --> 01:40:36,364
[ Murmuring ]
[ Whispering ]

1096
01:40:40,868 --> 01:40:43,405
They are here--
two eyewitnesses.

1097
01:40:47,475 --> 01:40:51,113
You are out of our brethren
of the tribe of Reuben?

1098
01:40:51,179 --> 01:40:53,948
Yes, I am Melzar, son of Raken.

1099
01:40:54,015 --> 01:40:58,686
- And you?
- I am Seyene, son of Cushan,
also of the tribe of Reuben.

1100
01:40:58,753 --> 01:41:02,023
Melzar and Seyene,
you swear a holy oath
to speak in truth?

1101
01:41:02,090 --> 01:41:04,058
We do.
We do.

1102
01:41:04,126 --> 01:41:07,262
Then tell us, Melzar.

1103
01:41:07,329 --> 01:41:11,433
Early one morning
we chanced by the fields
of Naomi.

1104
01:41:11,499 --> 01:41:15,170
And there,
in the faint light
that comes before dawn,

1105
01:41:15,237 --> 01:41:17,305
we saw the widow Ruth...

1106
01:41:17,372 --> 01:41:20,242
leaving the house of Naomi,

1107
01:41:20,308 --> 01:41:23,178
bearing in her arms
an idol of stone.

1108
01:41:23,245 --> 01:41:25,547
[ Crowd Exclaiming ]

1109
01:41:25,613 --> 01:41:28,616
She set it on a mound
and fell to her knees...

1110
01:41:28,683 --> 01:41:30,785
and worshipped.

1111
01:41:30,852 --> 01:41:33,188
What was the idol?

1112
01:41:33,255 --> 01:41:35,390
It was Chemosh, the god of Moab.

1113
01:41:35,457 --> 01:41:39,194
If it was not yet light,
how do you know it was Chemosh?

1114
01:41:39,261 --> 01:41:42,096
By the flame
burning in its middle.

1115
01:41:43,431 --> 01:41:47,702
I pray you, a word
to our brother from Reuben.

1116
01:41:47,769 --> 01:41:49,737
Speak, Naomi.

1117
01:41:49,804 --> 01:41:52,907
You are a son,
as we all are sons
and daughters of Jehovah.

1118
01:41:52,974 --> 01:41:56,211
Yes.
Name the 12 tribes
of Israel.

1119
01:41:57,612 --> 01:42:00,014
Am I here like some criminal
to answer the questions--

1120
01:42:00,081 --> 01:42:04,586
The widow Naomi questions
your being one of us.
Answer her.

1121
01:42:07,289 --> 01:42:09,224
Why, there's Judah...

1122
01:42:09,291 --> 01:42:12,994
and Dan and Reuben...

1123
01:42:13,060 --> 01:42:14,996
and Benjamin...

1124
01:42:15,062 --> 01:42:17,365
and Asher.

1125
01:42:17,432 --> 01:42:19,601
[ Crowd Murmuring ]

1126
01:42:22,404 --> 01:42:25,373
There are many of us
who can't name
all the tribes.

1127
01:42:25,440 --> 01:42:29,244
But we all must know
the Ten Commandments.
Do you?

1128
01:42:31,379 --> 01:42:34,148
How many of them
do you know, idolatress?

1129
01:42:35,783 --> 01:42:37,919
All.

1130
01:42:37,985 --> 01:42:41,155
I would be grateful
if you could remember
only the ninth.

1131
01:42:41,223 --> 01:42:43,291
Do you?

1132
01:42:45,527 --> 01:42:49,397
It is "Thou shalt not
bear false witness...

1133
01:42:49,464 --> 01:42:51,566
against thy neighbor."

1134
01:42:53,167 --> 01:42:56,638
Perhaps, Melzar,
you have a poor memory.

1135
01:42:56,704 --> 01:42:59,741
This, then, requires no memory.

1136
01:42:59,807 --> 01:43:02,544
Would you
and your brother
from Reuben...

1137
01:43:02,610 --> 01:43:05,647
bless the name of Jehovah
and curse the name of Chemosh?

1138
01:43:12,654 --> 01:43:14,722
Well? Will you?

1139
01:43:16,691 --> 01:43:19,594
[ Murmuring ]

1140
01:43:22,397 --> 01:43:24,466
[ Shouting ]

1141
01:43:24,532 --> 01:43:26,834
Cursed be the name of Jehovah!

1142
01:43:26,901 --> 01:43:29,637
Honor and glory
to the name of Chemosh!

1143
01:43:29,704 --> 01:43:31,673
[ Angry Shouting ]

1144
01:43:34,041 --> 01:43:37,812
[ Crowd Quiets ]
Twice over you have
doomed yourselves.

1145
01:43:37,879 --> 01:43:40,548
You have blasphemed
the name of the Lord.

1146
01:43:40,615 --> 01:43:43,785
- You have borne false witness
against the widow.
- [ Shouting ]

1147
01:43:43,851 --> 01:43:46,954
Let there be done to you
as you would have done to Ruth.

1148
01:43:47,021 --> 01:43:50,124
[ Excited Shouting ]

1149
01:43:50,191 --> 01:43:53,227
Glory to Chemosh!
Glory!

1150
01:43:54,128 --> 01:43:55,963
Glory to Chemosh!

1151
01:43:59,367 --> 01:44:02,904
Is there any support left
for the charge of idolatry
against the widow Ruth?

1152
01:44:07,208 --> 01:44:09,277
The matter is settled.

1153
01:44:09,344 --> 01:44:11,279
Ruth shall stay among us.

1154
01:44:12,447 --> 01:44:15,517
Those who threatened her
shall ask her forgiveness.

1155
01:44:15,583 --> 01:44:18,753
And let none
molest her again.
None.

1156
01:44:18,820 --> 01:44:21,723
[ Chattering ]

1157
01:44:23,124 --> 01:44:25,860
Oh. Oh,
I'm so happy.

1158
01:44:25,927 --> 01:44:29,397
Oh!
Thank you, Tob.

1159
01:44:29,464 --> 01:44:32,334
Thank you for your belief in me.

1160
01:44:32,400 --> 01:44:36,237
I did only what was necessary.

1161
01:44:36,304 --> 01:44:38,340
[ Boaz ]
Naomi?

1162
01:44:39,674 --> 01:44:42,143
I had to do what I did.

1163
01:44:42,209 --> 01:44:44,912
I pledged myself
to sit in judgment.

1164
01:44:44,979 --> 01:44:46,848
I understand.

1165
01:44:51,386 --> 01:44:53,421
Well, Naomi, we have won.

1166
01:44:53,488 --> 01:44:55,757
Yes, Tob, and you
have my gratitude.

1167
01:44:55,823 --> 01:44:58,326
No, no.
I won't release you
with only that.

1168
01:44:58,393 --> 01:45:00,828
I have a boon
to ask of you.
Of course.

1169
01:45:00,895 --> 01:45:04,466
I would be honored
if tomorrow you'd come
and have a cup of wine with me.

1170
01:45:04,532 --> 01:45:07,234
With pleasure.
I'll ask Ruth.
No, uh-- not Ruth.

1171
01:45:07,301 --> 01:45:09,737
I'd like to talk with you alone.

1172
01:45:14,275 --> 01:45:16,711
How do you know Ruth loves you?

1173
01:45:16,778 --> 01:45:18,913
How do you know she doesn't?

1174
01:45:18,980 --> 01:45:22,016
Is she interested
in someone else?
I cannot speak for her.

1175
01:45:22,083 --> 01:45:24,118
But you are trying to.

1176
01:45:24,185 --> 01:45:27,922
See here, Naomi.
Haven't I courted her?
Haven't I repaired your farm?

1177
01:45:27,989 --> 01:45:30,592
I've sent her spices,
ointments, food, clothes.

1178
01:45:30,658 --> 01:45:32,694
She's accepted them all.

1179
01:45:32,760 --> 01:45:35,196
I don't believe Ruth
measures love...

1180
01:45:35,262 --> 01:45:37,632
by the ability
to help or provide.

1181
01:45:37,699 --> 01:45:39,834
If she did, she'd have
very little use for me.

1182
01:45:39,901 --> 01:45:42,770
Didn't I defend her
when the rabble wanted--
You were eloquent.

1183
01:45:42,837 --> 01:45:45,373
We know that,
and we thank you for it.

1184
01:45:45,440 --> 01:45:47,475
Is she fond of another man?

1185
01:45:47,542 --> 01:45:50,912
I've told you,
I cannot speak for her.

1186
01:45:50,978 --> 01:45:53,180
I think you can.

1187
01:45:53,247 --> 01:45:56,183
All that matters
is what Ruth feels.

1188
01:45:56,250 --> 01:45:58,285
No.

1189
01:45:58,352 --> 01:46:02,757
No, it is you.
You hate me because of
my contempt for your husband.

1190
01:46:02,824 --> 01:46:05,560
Well, let me tell you,
it doesn't matter
what Ruth feels.

1191
01:46:05,627 --> 01:46:09,030
She is obliged
to become my wife.
Obliged?

1192
01:46:09,096 --> 01:46:11,966
Are you feigning ignorance,

1193
01:46:12,033 --> 01:46:14,869
or have you forgotten
the levirate law?

1194
01:46:14,936 --> 01:46:17,204
The law that the next of kin
of a deceased man...

1195
01:46:17,271 --> 01:46:21,108
has the right,
even the obligation,
to marry his widow.

1196
01:46:24,311 --> 01:46:26,414
Well?

1197
01:46:27,348 --> 01:46:29,551
I am your nearest male kin.

1198
01:46:30,952 --> 01:46:33,054
So you are.
Good.

1199
01:46:33,120 --> 01:46:35,056
Then you see it.

1200
01:46:35,122 --> 01:46:38,059
And when you think it over,
you will be happy
with my decision.

1201
01:46:38,125 --> 01:46:41,896
Now, go back to Ruth
and tell her, uh, tactfully...

1202
01:46:41,963 --> 01:46:45,467
of my intention to announce
our betrothal tomorrow.

1203
01:46:48,269 --> 01:46:50,237
Yes.

1204
01:46:50,304 --> 01:46:53,040
I will tell her.

1205
01:46:55,342 --> 01:46:57,445
I will tell her.

1206
01:47:00,047 --> 01:47:01,916
I'll tell her.

1207
01:47:09,857 --> 01:47:12,026
Oh, Ruth.

1208
01:47:12,093 --> 01:47:14,696
I should have remembered
the levirate law...

1209
01:47:14,762 --> 01:47:17,699
before we ever reached
the banks of the Jordan.

1210
01:47:17,765 --> 01:47:20,502
And I should have
remembered Tob better.

1211
01:48:21,328 --> 01:48:23,531
Ruth, you have not been to bed.

1212
01:48:25,633 --> 01:48:27,802
I-- I couldn't sleep.

1213
01:48:27,869 --> 01:48:31,105
No more could I.
I scarcely closed my eyes.

1214
01:48:31,172 --> 01:48:34,008
I'll get you
something to eat.
[ Knocking ]

1215
01:48:34,075 --> 01:48:37,779
Who is it?
Huphim, servant of Tob.

1216
01:48:39,046 --> 01:48:40,915
Come in.

1217
01:48:42,684 --> 01:48:45,186
Peace to you.

1218
01:48:45,252 --> 01:48:47,354
My master sends this dress.

1219
01:48:47,421 --> 01:48:50,958
He bids you come
to the harvest celebration
tonight wearing it.

1220
01:48:54,328 --> 01:48:58,933
- He asks if you have
any word to send him.
- Only peace.

1221
01:49:00,001 --> 01:49:02,136
That is all?

1222
01:49:03,437 --> 01:49:05,707
That is much.

1223
01:49:14,982 --> 01:49:17,752
I'm not going
to any celebration.

1224
01:49:27,161 --> 01:49:29,296
Ruth. You are going.

1225
01:49:29,363 --> 01:49:31,565
You must go,

1226
01:49:31,633 --> 01:49:34,201
because there is one way,
one possible way--

1227
01:49:34,268 --> 01:49:37,772
Yes. For the first time,
I beg you to do something
for me.

1228
01:49:37,839 --> 01:49:40,407
Will you promise?
Promise what?

1229
01:49:40,474 --> 01:49:42,376
Never mind.
Just promise.

1230
01:49:42,443 --> 01:49:45,813
Trust me.
I would rather die
than bring you hurt.

1231
01:49:45,880 --> 01:49:49,684
But promise.
Promise blindly.
I promise.

1232
01:49:51,118 --> 01:49:54,255
Go to the harvest
celebration tonight.
I will go with you.

1233
01:49:54,321 --> 01:49:57,224
And when the night wears on,

1234
01:49:57,291 --> 01:49:59,193
and when we women go home,

1235
01:49:59,260 --> 01:50:01,262
stay.

1236
01:50:01,328 --> 01:50:06,000
It is a custom for the men
to remain by the winnowed grain
on this night.

1237
01:50:06,067 --> 01:50:08,703
Wait until Boaz goes to sleep.

1238
01:50:08,770 --> 01:50:11,706
Mark the place
where he lies down.

1239
01:50:11,773 --> 01:50:14,108
Then lie beside him.

1240
01:50:14,175 --> 01:50:17,044
Naomi,
what are you saying?
Do you not love him?

1241
01:50:17,111 --> 01:50:20,114
Why-- If--
How can you ask that?

1242
01:50:20,181 --> 01:50:23,651
Think about it.
Do you love Boaz?

1243
01:50:23,718 --> 01:50:27,588
Even if I did love him,
how could I possibly do
what you ask?

1244
01:50:27,655 --> 01:50:29,623
Please, Ruth,
do not question me.

1245
01:50:29,691 --> 01:50:32,259
I know Boaz, and I know you.

1246
01:50:32,326 --> 01:50:35,697
Do as I ask.
Promise me.

1247
01:50:39,667 --> 01:50:41,736
[ Ululating, Shouting ]

1248
01:50:41,803 --> 01:50:45,106
[ Rhythmic Clapping ]

1249
01:50:57,384 --> 01:51:01,055
This is an important
night for you, Master.
Quiet!

1250
01:51:02,423 --> 01:51:05,392
My master,
you must have
a clear head for--

1251
01:51:59,613 --> 01:52:03,918
[ Ululating ]

1252
01:52:31,846 --> 01:52:34,115
Your betrothed--
and drunk.

1253
01:52:38,185 --> 01:52:40,354
[ Chuckling ]

1254
01:52:45,960 --> 01:52:48,062
Here comes my bride!

1255
01:52:54,635 --> 01:52:56,804
Ruth!
You're beautiful!

1256
01:52:58,005 --> 01:53:01,008
I knew
you'd look beautiful
in my dress.

1257
01:53:01,075 --> 01:53:04,578
Worth all the time
you've keep me waiting.

1258
01:53:04,645 --> 01:53:06,680
Peace, Naomi.

1259
01:53:06,747 --> 01:53:09,884
Well, we have something
to celebrate, eh?

1260
01:53:09,951 --> 01:53:13,054
I'm going to announce
to the council of elders
tomorrow morning...

1261
01:53:13,120 --> 01:53:15,556
that Ruth is to be my bride.

1262
01:53:17,324 --> 01:53:20,928
[ Women Squealing, Ululating ]

1263
01:53:50,657 --> 01:53:52,994
[ Women Laughing ]

1264
01:53:57,564 --> 01:54:00,067
Happens every festival.

1265
01:54:18,953 --> 01:54:21,055
[ Laughing Continues ]

1266
01:55:49,910 --> 01:55:53,247
[ Exhales ]

1267
01:56:16,703 --> 01:56:18,705
[ Twig Snaps ]
Who--

1268
01:56:29,216 --> 01:56:31,985
I was dreaming of you,

1269
01:56:32,053 --> 01:56:34,088
and you are here.

1270
01:56:35,322 --> 01:56:37,658
I wanted so much to explain.

1271
01:56:40,094 --> 01:56:42,729
There is no need.

1272
01:56:44,031 --> 01:56:46,033
I have always understood.

1273
01:56:47,201 --> 01:56:49,436
I love you, Ruth.

1274
01:56:49,503 --> 01:56:52,606
I've loved you
from the day we met
in my field.

1275
01:56:53,607 --> 01:56:55,609
It must have been
God's goodness...

1276
01:56:55,676 --> 01:56:58,245
that brought me
to your field that day.

1277
01:57:02,483 --> 01:57:05,619
Perhaps he's been
directing me to you
all my life.

1278
01:57:19,500 --> 01:57:23,137
Ruth. I want you
for my wife.

1279
01:57:27,374 --> 01:57:29,976
But the levirate law.

1280
01:57:30,043 --> 01:57:32,045
Tob is next of kin.

1281
01:57:32,113 --> 01:57:35,349
He's going to claim
his right to me before
the elders in the morning.

1282
01:57:35,416 --> 01:57:37,751
I will get him
to renounce his right.

1283
01:57:37,818 --> 01:57:40,421
But what if he refuses?
Never. He will yield.

1284
01:57:40,487 --> 01:57:43,924
I will make it
worth his while.
Have no fear.

1285
01:57:43,990 --> 01:57:46,793
If I know Tob,
he will come to terms.

1286
01:57:46,860 --> 01:57:48,762
He likes property.

1287
01:57:53,267 --> 01:57:56,002
It will be light soon.

1288
01:57:56,069 --> 01:57:58,605
Go now, my Ruth.

1289
01:57:58,672 --> 01:58:02,309
No one must see us together
before this is settled.

1290
01:58:02,376 --> 01:58:05,379
There must be
no more suspicion
to hurt you.

1291
01:58:08,249 --> 01:58:10,384
I love you.

1292
01:58:48,922 --> 01:58:50,791
[ Kisses ]

1293
01:58:55,229 --> 01:58:57,798
He asked you to marry him.

1294
01:58:59,333 --> 01:59:01,502
How did you divine he would?

1295
01:59:01,568 --> 01:59:04,271
I did not divine it.
I had help.

1296
01:59:06,207 --> 01:59:09,576
The day Boaz said
he would sit in judgment,
I prayed for you.

1297
01:59:10,677 --> 01:59:14,481
A holy man
came to the well
and told me.

1298
01:59:14,548 --> 01:59:17,584
That-- That I would
marry Boaz?

1299
01:59:19,186 --> 01:59:23,156
He told me
that from the widow
of my son...

1300
01:59:23,224 --> 01:59:26,159
would issue children
and children's children,

1301
01:59:26,227 --> 01:59:28,329
numbering among them
a great king,

1302
01:59:28,395 --> 01:59:31,432
a royal house and a prophet...

1303
01:59:31,498 --> 01:59:34,768
that many will worship
as the Messiah.

1304
01:59:37,271 --> 01:59:39,840
From me?

1305
01:59:39,906 --> 01:59:42,209
A Moabitess?

1306
01:59:42,276 --> 01:59:44,445
Yes, from you, my daughter.

1307
01:59:44,511 --> 01:59:48,181
And who but Boaz
could father
such a family?

1308
01:59:48,249 --> 01:59:50,617
Have no doubts.

1309
01:59:50,684 --> 01:59:54,321
I believe the holy man,
and so must you.

1310
01:59:54,388 --> 01:59:57,424
I want to, Mother!
I want to!

1311
01:59:59,393 --> 02:00:01,495
[ Goat Bleats ]

1312
02:00:02,463 --> 02:00:04,731
Shoshanna will be angry with me.

1313
02:00:04,798 --> 02:00:07,401
So much happened last night,
I forgot about her.

1314
02:00:07,468 --> 02:00:10,003
May God forgive me.

1315
02:00:10,070 --> 02:00:14,708
There's a law that no day
must pass without milking
a full animal, lest it suffer.

1316
02:00:14,775 --> 02:00:18,879
Is there anything
that has not been put
to law in Judah?

1317
02:00:18,945 --> 02:00:20,881
Yes.

1318
02:00:20,947 --> 02:00:25,218
There's no law
that limits a cup
from running over.

1319
02:00:26,487 --> 02:00:30,324
[ Bleats ]
Coming, my little flower.
Coming!

1320
02:00:30,391 --> 02:00:32,859
[ Bleats ]
Coming!

1321
02:01:16,269 --> 02:01:18,339
I have failed.

1322
02:01:18,405 --> 02:01:20,674
Tob will not renounce his claim.

1323
02:01:20,741 --> 02:01:22,809
I offered him everything I own.

1324
02:01:22,876 --> 02:01:26,179
Even now he's
announcing your marriage
before the elders.

1325
02:01:26,246 --> 02:01:28,982
No. No, it cannot be.

1326
02:01:29,049 --> 02:01:32,018
It is. It's the law.
The law?

1327
02:01:32,085 --> 02:01:36,156
All I've heard
since I came here
is the law. The law!

1328
02:01:36,222 --> 02:01:40,827
What-- What kind of justice
binds a widow to a man she
can never love? The law!

1329
02:01:40,894 --> 02:01:43,597
It is meant to be kind,
not harsh.

1330
02:01:43,664 --> 02:01:46,833
Meant to keep alive
the inheritance of the dead.

1331
02:01:46,900 --> 02:01:49,703
But for that law,
I would not be here.

1332
02:01:49,770 --> 02:01:52,806
My mother was such a widow.

1333
02:01:52,873 --> 02:01:56,309
I know that's
of small comfort
to you, Ruth.

1334
02:01:56,377 --> 02:01:58,679
If only there was some way.

1335
02:02:21,234 --> 02:02:23,136
[ Hoofbeats ]

1336
02:02:23,203 --> 02:02:26,907
[ Sobbing ]

1337
02:02:26,973 --> 02:02:29,543
Ruth!
Come and drink.

1338
02:02:48,194 --> 02:02:50,664
Ruth.
[ Sobbing Continues ]

1339
02:03:04,445 --> 02:03:06,513
I-- I must leave.

1340
02:03:06,580 --> 02:03:09,850
My-- My family is going
to Tob's wedding.

1341
02:03:09,916 --> 02:03:11,818
Go.

1342
02:03:13,086 --> 02:03:15,889
Aren't you going?
No.

1343
02:03:37,944 --> 02:03:40,547
Never a thing like it
in all Bethlehem.

1344
02:03:40,614 --> 02:03:42,849
Feel.
Like the petals
of a rose.

1345
02:03:42,916 --> 02:03:47,688
Yes. Tob manages
to get only the best.

1346
02:03:49,523 --> 02:03:51,658
God's will.

1347
02:03:51,725 --> 02:03:54,127
But it-- it is lovely.

1348
02:03:54,194 --> 02:03:57,964
You are a lucky bride.
Such a good man
and so rich.

1349
02:03:58,031 --> 02:03:59,866
They are both lucky.

1350
02:04:15,215 --> 02:04:17,083
Please.

1351
02:04:22,889 --> 02:04:24,791
Thank you.

1352
02:04:36,236 --> 02:04:38,839
** [ Fast Tempo ]

1353
02:04:56,757 --> 02:04:59,292
Ah, my kinsman Boaz!

1354
02:04:59,359 --> 02:05:01,562
I hope I am welcome, Tob.

1355
02:05:01,628 --> 02:05:05,498
Welcome? I cannot tell you
what satisfaction it gives me
to see you here.

1356
02:05:05,566 --> 02:05:08,201
Ho there!
Wine for Boaz!
Wine for everybody!

1357
02:05:08,268 --> 02:05:10,170
Eat, drink, dance.

1358
02:05:10,236 --> 02:05:14,007
Rejoice with us,
for when has Bethlehem
seen a more joyous day?

1359
02:05:14,074 --> 02:05:16,209
You certainly are cheerful
for a groom.

1360
02:05:16,276 --> 02:05:18,211
I am cheerful, old Huphim.

1361
02:05:18,278 --> 02:05:22,583
I wish I could tell
every person here how my heart
overflows with joy today.

1362
02:05:22,649 --> 02:05:26,219
And as the Lord lives,
I believe I will.

1363
02:05:26,286 --> 02:05:29,022
** [ Continues ]

1364
02:05:40,834 --> 02:05:42,869
[ No Audible Dialogue ]

1365
02:05:49,409 --> 02:05:51,712
I found these.

1366
02:05:52,879 --> 02:05:54,881
They brought you to our land.

1367
02:05:54,948 --> 02:05:57,784
They kept you from harm.

1368
02:05:57,851 --> 02:05:59,986
They will keep us strong.

1369
02:06:01,588 --> 02:06:03,556
Every happiness.

1370
02:06:03,624 --> 02:06:07,060
** [ Ends ]
[ Huphim ] Silence, all of you!
Tob would speak!

1371
02:06:07,127 --> 02:06:09,429
Listen! Listen to me!

1372
02:06:09,495 --> 02:06:12,098
Silence, all of you!
Tob would speak!

1373
02:06:12,165 --> 02:06:16,136
A few thoughts, dear friends,
before my bride joins me.

1374
02:06:16,202 --> 02:06:19,239
God has been good
to the tribe of Judah--

1375
02:06:19,305 --> 02:06:21,574
[ Murmuring Agreement ]
in which Elimelech--

1376
02:06:21,642 --> 02:06:23,844
may his soul
rest in peace--

1377
02:06:23,910 --> 02:06:27,681
and Naomi and myself
are kinsmen.

1378
02:06:27,748 --> 02:06:30,450
Yes, the Lord
has been good to us.

1379
02:06:30,516 --> 02:06:32,886
Has he not given
Naomi back to us...

1380
02:06:32,953 --> 02:06:35,188
and granted us the rains?

1381
02:06:35,255 --> 02:06:39,292
And crowning all, has he
not turned the footsteps
of Ruth to our city...

1382
02:06:39,359 --> 02:06:43,764
and may mingle her blood
with that of a proud house?

1383
02:06:48,869 --> 02:06:51,371
My fair bride and dear Naomi.

1384
02:06:52,739 --> 02:06:55,241
Praise for you both
has just been on my lips.

1385
02:06:55,308 --> 02:06:57,177
Speak, Ruth.

1386
02:06:57,243 --> 02:07:00,280
Say if it is not true
that your heart is in this land,

1387
02:07:00,346 --> 02:07:03,249
that you obey our law
and trust in the Lord...

1388
02:07:03,316 --> 02:07:05,185
and honor my claim to you.

1389
02:07:11,124 --> 02:07:15,095
It is true, Tob,
that my heart is in this land.

1390
02:07:15,161 --> 02:07:17,731
It is true
that I obey the law...

1391
02:07:17,798 --> 02:07:20,667
and that my trust
is in the Lord.

1392
02:07:20,734 --> 02:07:23,536
It is true that I honor
your claim to me,

1393
02:07:23,603 --> 02:07:25,638
my honorable kinsman.

1394
02:07:30,043 --> 02:07:34,080
But it is also true
that I do not love you.

1395
02:07:42,555 --> 02:07:44,557
Have no fear.

1396
02:07:44,624 --> 02:07:46,993
You will, in time.
I shall try.

1397
02:07:47,060 --> 02:07:50,897
Good. I'm a patient man,
and I welcome your truthfulness.

1398
02:07:53,033 --> 02:07:55,268
Then I must keep
nothing from you.

1399
02:07:55,335 --> 02:07:58,171
I must tell you everything
that is in my heart.

1400
02:07:58,238 --> 02:08:00,040
Of course.

1401
02:08:00,106 --> 02:08:04,745
You have the right to know
that on the night
of the harvest celebration,

1402
02:08:04,811 --> 02:08:08,181
I sought out Boaz
on the threshing floor.

1403
02:08:08,248 --> 02:08:10,917
[ Shocked Murmuring ]

1404
02:08:34,607 --> 02:08:37,510
As you say, woman of Moab.

1405
02:08:37,577 --> 02:08:41,347
I have always upheld the law,
and because I intend
to keep on doing so,

1406
02:08:41,414 --> 02:08:45,852
I will permit no wanton
to come into my house
and bear my name.

1407
02:08:46,987 --> 02:08:50,690
Then give up your claim to her!

1408
02:08:50,757 --> 02:08:53,226
According to the custom
of our fathers,

1409
02:08:53,293 --> 02:08:56,797
take off your shoe
and give it to me
as a sign of renouncement.

1410
02:08:58,198 --> 02:09:00,901
For, as next of kin,
I will marry her.

1411
02:09:30,997 --> 02:09:33,466
Ruth of Moab, widow of Mahlon,

1412
02:09:33,533 --> 02:09:36,336
swear with me
that nothing passed
between us on that night--

1413
02:09:36,402 --> 02:09:38,171
or any other time--

1414
02:09:38,238 --> 02:09:40,306
except spoken vows of love.

1415
02:09:42,876 --> 02:09:45,478
By the holy
commandments,
I swear it.

1416
02:09:47,747 --> 02:09:49,816
We are without blemish
in this matter.

1417
02:09:49,883 --> 02:09:51,918
Jehovah is witness
to this--

1418
02:09:51,985 --> 02:09:54,654
our oath between us
and between him forever.

1419
02:09:54,720 --> 02:09:56,823
You have sworn a holy oath.

1420
02:09:56,890 --> 02:10:00,526
Sworn that your word is truth
and bound your souls
with a bond.

1421
02:10:00,593 --> 02:10:03,196
Go in peace, my children.

1422
02:10:03,263 --> 02:10:06,399
Go with God's blessings
as man and wife.

1423
02:11:05,191 --> 02:11:07,860
[ Jehoam's Voice ]
So Boaz took Ruth,
and she was his wife,

1424
02:11:07,928 --> 02:11:10,263
and she bore him a son.

1425
02:11:10,330 --> 02:11:13,633
And Naomi took the child
and laid it at her bosom...

1426
02:11:13,699 --> 02:11:16,269
and became nurse unto it.

1427
02:11:16,336 --> 02:11:19,805
And they called
the name of the son Obed.

1428
02:11:19,872 --> 02:11:22,943
And Obed was
the father of Jesse,

1429
02:11:23,009 --> 02:11:26,546
and Jesse was
the father of David,

1430
02:11:26,612 --> 02:11:28,481
the king.