Ruth 2:8–16

⁸And Boaz said to Ruth, “Listen carefully,^h my daughter, go no longer to glean in another field. Moreover, do not leave from this one, but stay closeⁱ with my young women. ⁹Keep your eyes on the field that they reap and go after them. Have I not ordered the servants not to bother you? And if you get thirsty, you shall go to the containers and drink from where the servants have drawn.” ¹⁰And she fell on her face and bowed down to the ground and said to him, “Why have I found favor in your eyes by recognizing me—for I am a foreigner?” ¹¹And Boaz answered and said to her, “All that you have done for your mother-in-law after the death of your husband was fully told to me. How you left your father and mother and the land of your birth, and you went to a people that you did not know before.^{j 12}May Yahweh reward your work and may a full reward be given to you from Yahweh, the God of Israel, under whose wings you came to take refuge.” ¹³And she said, “May I find favor in your eyes, my lord, for you have comforted me and have spoken kindly to your servant,^k and I am not one of your servants.”

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.”