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And she happened to come to the part of the field belonging to Boaz, who was from the clan of Elimelech. <A name="5"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/2-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Just then Boaz arrived from Bethlehem and said to the harvesters, “The LORD be with you.” <p class="reg">“The LORD bless you,” they replied. <A name="6"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/2-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And Boaz asked the foreman of his harvesters, “Whose young woman is this?” <A name="7"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/2-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>The foreman answered, “She is the Moabitess who returned with Naomi from the land of Moab. <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/2-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>She has said, ‘Please let me glean and gather among the sheaves after the harvesters.’ So she came out and has continued from morning until now, except that she rested a short time in the shelter.” <A name="9"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/2-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Then Boaz said to Ruth, “Listen, my daughter. Do not go and glean in another field, and do not go away from this place, but stay here close to my servant girls. <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/2-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Let your eyes be on the field they are harvesting, and follow along after these girls. Indeed, I have ordered the young men not to touch you. And when you are thirsty, go and drink from the jars the young men have filled.” <A name="11"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/2-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>At this, she fell on her face, bowing low to the ground, and said to him, “Why have I found such favor in your eyes that you should take notice of me, even though I am a foreigner?” <A name="12"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/2-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Boaz replied, “I have been made fully aware of all you have done for your mother-in-law since the death of your husband, how you left your father and mother and the land of your birth, and how you came to a people you did not know before. <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/2-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>May the LORD repay your work, and may you receive a rich reward from the LORD, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have taken refuge.” <A name="14"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/2-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>“My lord,” she said, “may I continue to find favor in your eyes, for you have comforted and spoken kindly to your maidservant, though I am not like one of your servant girls.” <A name="15"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/2-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>At mealtime Boaz said to her, “Come over here; have some bread and dip it into the vinegar sauce.” So she sat down beside the harvesters, and he offered her roasted grain, and she ate and was satisfied and had some left over. <A name="16"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/2-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>When Ruth got up to glean, Boaz ordered his young men, “Even if she gathers among the sheaves, do not insult her. <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/2-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Rather, pull out for her some stalks from the bundles and leave them for her to gather. Do not rebuke her.” <A name="18"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/2-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>So Ruth gathered grain in the field until evening. And when she beat out what she had gleaned, it was about an ephah of barley.<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">a</a></span> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/2-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>She picked up the grain and went into the town, where her mother-in-law saw what she had gleaned. And she brought out what she had saved from her meal and gave it to Naomi. <A name="20"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/2-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Then her mother-in-law asked her, “Where did you glean today, and where did you work? Blessed be the man who noticed you.” <p class="reg"> So she told her mother-in-law where she had worked. “The name of the man I worked with today is Boaz,” she said. <A name="21"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/2-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Then Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, “May he be blessed by the LORD, who has not withdrawn His kindness from the living or the dead.” Naomi continued, “The man is a close relative. He is one of our kinsman-redeemers.<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">b</a></span>” <A name="22"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/2-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Then Ruth the Moabitess said, “He also told me, ‘Stay with my young men until they have finished gathering all my harvest.’” <A name="23"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/2-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>And Naomi said to her daughter-in-law Ruth, “My daughter, it is good for you to work with his young women, so that nothing will happen to you in another field.” <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/2-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>So Ruth stayed close to the servant girls of Boaz to glean grain until the barley and wheat harvests were finished. 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