Ruth 2:14–23

¹⁴At mealtime Boaz said to her, “Come over here. Have some bread^y and dip it in the wine vinegar.”

When she sat down with the harvesters,^z he offered her some roasted grain.^a She ate all she wanted and had some left over.^{b 15}As she got up to glean, Boaz gave orders to his men, “Let her gather among the sheaves^c and don’t reprimand her. ¹⁶Even pull out some stalks for her from the bundles and leave them for her to pick up, and don’t rebuke^d her.”

¹⁷So Ruth gleaned in the field until evening. Then she threshed^e the barley she had gathered, and it amounted to about an ephah.^{af 18}She carried it back to town, and her mother-in-law saw how much she had gathered. Ruth also brought out and gave her what she had left over^g after she had eaten enough.

¹⁹Her mother-in-law asked her, “Where did you glean today? Where did you work? Blessed be the man who took notice of you!^h”

Then Ruth told her mother-in-law about the one at whose place she had been working. “The name of the man I worked with today is Boaz,” she said.

²⁰“The Lord bless him!ⁱ” Naomi said to her daughter-in-law.^j “He has not stopped showing his kindness^k to the living and the dead.” She added, “That man is our close relative;^l he is one of our guardian-redeemers.^bm”

²¹Then Ruth the Moabiteⁿ said, “He even said to me, ‘Stay with my workers until they finish harvesting all my grain.’ ”

²²Naomi said to Ruth her daughter-in-law, “It will be good for you, my daughter, to go with the women who work for him, because in someone else’s field you might be harmed.”

²³So Ruth stayed close to the women of Boaz to glean until the barley^o and wheat harvests^p were finished. And she lived with her mother-in-law.