19 Her mother-in-law said to her, “Where did you gather barley today, and where did you work? May the Lord bless the man who noticed you.”g

Ruth told her mother-in-law whom she had worked with and said, “The name of the man I worked with today is Boaz.”

20 Then Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, “May the Lordh bless him because he has not abandoned his kindness to the living or the dead.”i Naomi continued, “The man is a close relative. He is one of our family redeemers.”j