Ruth 2:8–16

⁸Then Boaz said to Ruth, “Have you not heard, my daughter? Do not go to glean in another field; furthermore, do not go on from this one, but ¹stay here with my young women.

⁹“Let your eyes be on the field which they reap, and go after them. Indeed, I have commanded the young men not to touch you. And if you are thirsty, go to the ¹water jars and drink from what the young men draw.”

¹⁰Then she ^afell on her face, bowing to the ground and said to him, “Why have I found favor in your sight that you should take notice of me, though I am a foreigner?”

¹¹Boaz replied to her, “All that you have done for your mother-in-law after the death of your husband has been fully told to me, and how you forsook your father and your mother and the land of your birth, and came to a people that you did not previously know.

¹²“^aMay Yahweh fully repay your work, and may your wages be full from Yahweh, the God of Israel, ^bunder whose wings you have come to seek refuge.”

¹³Then she said, “May I find favor in your eyes, my lord, for you have comforted me and indeed have spoken to the heart of your servant-woman, though I am not like one of your servant-women.”

¹⁴At mealtime Boaz said to her, “¹Come here, that you may eat of the bread and dip your piece of bread in the vinegar.” So she sat beside the reapers; and he ²served her roasted grain, and she ate and was satisfied ^aand had some left.

¹⁵Then she rose to glean, and Boaz commanded his young men, saying, “Let her glean even among the sheaves, and do not dishonor her.

¹⁶“Also you shall purposely pull out for her some grain from the bundles and ¹leave it that she may glean, and do not rebuke her.”