Ruth 2:14–23

¹⁴And Boaz said to her at mealtime,^l “Come here and eat from the bread and dip your morsel in the wine vinegar.” So she sat beside the gleaners, and he offered to her roasted grain. And she ate and was satisfied, and she had some left over. ¹⁵And she got up to glean, and Boaz instructed his servants saying, “Let her also glean between the sheaves and do not reproach her. ¹⁶And also pull out for her from your bundles and leave it so that she may glean—and do not rebuke her.”

¹⁷So she gleaned in the field until the evening and she beat out what she had gleaned, and it was about an ephah of barley. ¹⁸And she picked it up and went to the town. Her mother-in-law saw how much she had gleaned. And she took it out and gave to her what she had left over after being satisfied.^{m 19}And her mother-in-law said to her, “Where did you glean todayⁿ and where did you work? May he who took notice of you be blessed.” And she told her mother-in-law with whom she had worked^o and said, “The name of the man who I worked with today is Boaz.” ²⁰And Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, “May he be blessed by Yahweh, whose loyal love has not forsaken the living or the dead.” And Naomi said to her, “The man is a close relative for us, he is one of our redeemers.” ²¹And Ruth the Moabite said, “Also, he said to me, ‘You shall stay close with the servants which are mine until they have finished all of the harvest which is mine.’ ” ²²And Naomi said to Ruth her daughter-in-law, “It is good, my daughter, that you go out with his maidservants so that you will not be bothered^p in another field.” ²³So she stayed close with the maidservants of Boaz to glean until the end of the barley harvest and wheat harvest. And she lived with her mother-in-law.