Ruth 2:14–23

¹⁴At mealtime Boaz told her, “Come over here and have some bread and dip it in the vinegar sauce.” So she sat beside the harvesters, and he offered her roasted grain. She ate and was satisfied and had some left over.

¹⁵When she got up to gather grain, Boaz ordered his young men, “Let her even gather grain among the bundles, and don’t humiliate her. ¹⁶Pull out some stalks from the bundles for her and leave them for her to gather. Don’t rebuke her.” ¹⁷So Ruth gathered grain in the field until evening. She beat out what she had gathered, and it was about twenty-six quarts^A of barley. ¹⁸She picked up the grain and went into the town, where her mother-in-law saw what she had gleaned. She brought out what she had left over from her meal and gave it to her.

¹⁹Her 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.”

²⁰Then Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, “May the Lord^h 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

²¹Ruth the Moabitess said, “He also told me, ‘Stay with my young men until they have finished all of my harvest.’ ”

²²So Naomi said to her daughter-in-law Ruth, “My daughter, it is good for you to work^B with his female servants, so that nothing will happen to you in another field.” ²³Ruth stayed close to Boaz’s female servants and gathered grain until the barley and the wheat harvests were finished.^k And she lived with^C her mother-in-law.