Ruth 2:14–23

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.

¹⁵When she rose to glean, Boaz commanded his servants, saying, “Let her glean even among the sheaves, and do not insult her.

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

¹⁷So she gleaned in the field until evening. Then she beat out what she had gleaned, and it was about an ephah of barley.

¹⁸She took it up and went into the city, and her mother-in-law saw what she had gleaned. She also took it out and ^agave ¹Naomi what she had left after ²she was satisfied.

¹⁹Her mother-in-law then said to her, “Where did you glean today and where did you work? May he who ^atook notice of you be blessed.” So she told her mother-in-law with whom she had worked and said, “The name of the man with whom I worked today is Boaz.”

²⁰Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, “^aMay he be blessed of the Lord who has not withdrawn his kindness to the living and to the dead.” Again Naomi said to her, “The man is ¹our relative, he is one of our ²closest relatives.”

²¹Then Ruth the Moabitess said, “¹Furthermore, he said to me, ‘You should stay close to my servants until they have finished all my harvest.’ ”

²²Naomi said to Ruth her daughter-in-law, “It is good, my daughter, that you go out with his maids, so that others do not fall upon you in another field.”

²³So she stayed close by the maids of Boaz in order to glean until ^athe end of the barley harvest and the wheat harvest. And she lived with her mother-in-law.