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1 Now Naomi had a relative on her husband's side, a prominent
man of wealth, from the clan of Elimelek, whose name was Boaz.
2 Ruth the Moabitess said to Naomi, "Let me go to the field and
pick up some leftover grain after anyone who is kind enough to
permit me to do it." She replied, "Go, my daughter."
3 So she went and gleaned grain in the field after the reapers.
She happened to come on part of the field that belonged to Boaz,
who was of the clan of Elimelek.
4 Now Boaz had just come from Bethlehem and said to the reapers,
"The LORD be with you." They replied, "The LORD bless you."
5 Then Boaz asked his servant who was overseeing the reapers,
"To whom does that young woman belong?"
6 The servant overseeing the reapers replied, "She is the Moabite
woman who came back with Naomi from the land of Moab.
7 She asked, 'May I glean grain, and gather after the reapers
among the bundles of grain.' So she came and has worked
continuously from the morning until now, except for a
brief rest in the shelter."

8 Then said Boaz to Ruth, "Listen, my daughter, do not go to
glean grain in another field, or leave this one, but stay
close to my servant girls.
9 Keep your eyes on the field they are reaping, and follow them.
I have told the young men not to touch you? When you are thirsty,
go to the water jugs, and drink from what the young men
have drawn."
10 Then she fell on her face, bowing to the ground, and thanked
him, "Why have I found favor in your sight, that you should
take notice of me, seeing I am a foreigner?"
11 Boaz answered her, "I have been told about everything that
you have done for your mother-in-law since the death of your
husband, and how you left your father and mother, and the
land of your birth, and have come to a people that you did
not know about before now.
12 The LORD reward your efforts. May you be repaid in full
from the LORD, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have
taken refuge."
13 Then she said, "Let me continue to find favor in your sight,
my lord, for you have encouraged me by speaking kindly to
your servant, even though I am not one of your servants."

14 At lunch time Boaz said to her, "Come here and have some bread.
Dip your piece in the vinegar." So she sat beside the reapers,
and Boaz passed her roasted grain, and she ate until she
was satisfied and even had some left over.
15 When she got up to glean grain, Boaz told his young men,
"Let her glean grain even among the standing bundles,
and do not scold her.
16 Also pull out some stalks from the bundles for her,
and leave it for her glean, and do not reprimand her.
17 So she gleaned grain in the field until evening.
When she beat out the grain she had gleaned, it was
about third pounds of barley.

18 So she picked it up and returned to the town and her
mother-in-law saw how much she had gleaned. Then Ruth
gave her some of her lunch that was left over after
she was satisfied.
19 Her mother-in-law asked her, "Where did you glean grain
today? Where did you find work? Blessed be the one who
took notice of you." Then she told her mother-in-law
about the one with whom she had worked, "The man's name
I worked with today was Boaz."
20 Then Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, "May he be
blessed by the LORD, who has not stopped showing his
faithful kindness to the living or to the dead." Then
Naomi announced, "The man is our relative, one of our
family redeemers."
21 Ruth the Moabitess said, "Yes, he even told me, 'Stay
close to my servants until they have ended all my harvest.'"
22 Then Naomi said to Ruth her daughter-in-law, "It is good,
my daughter, that you go out with his female servants,
because you might be harmed in someone else's field."
23 So she kept close by the female servants of Boaz,
gleaning grain to the end of barley harvest and then
the wheat harvest; and she lived with her mother-in-law.

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