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and she happened to stop at the plot of land belonging to Boaz, who was of the family of Elimelech. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/2-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>It was then that Boaz came back from Bethlehem and said to the reapers, “The LORD be with you!” And they answered him, “The LORD bless you!” <span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/2-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Then Boaz said to his servant who was in charge of the reapers, “Whose young woman is this?” <span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/2-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>The servant in charge of the reapers answered, “She is the young Moabite woman who came back with Naomi from the country of Moab. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/2-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And she said, ‘Please let me glean and gather after the reapers among the <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[b]</a></span>sheaves.’ So she came and has continued [gathering grain] from early morning until now, except when she sat [resting] for a little while in the [field] house.” <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/2-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Then Boaz said to Ruth, “Listen carefully, my daughter. Do not go to glean in another field or leave this one, but stay here close by my maids. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/2-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Watch which field they reap, and follow behind them. I have commanded the servants not to touch you. And when you are thirsty, go to the [water] jars and drink from what the servants draw.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/2-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Then she kneeled face downward, bowing to the ground, and said to him, “Why have I found favor in your eyes that you should notice me, when I am a foreigner?” <span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/2-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Boaz answered her, “I have been made fully aware of everything that you have done for your mother-in-law since the death of your husband, and how you have left your father and mother and the land of your birth, and have come to a people that you did not know before. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/2-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>May the LORD repay you for your kindness, and may your reward be full from the LORD, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to take refuge.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/2-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Then she said, “Let me find favor in your sight, my lord, for you have comforted me and have spoken kindly to your maidservant, though I am not as one of your maidservants.” <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/2-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>At mealtime Boaz said to her, “Come over here and eat some bread and dip your bread in the vinegar.” So she sat beside the reapers; and he served her roasted grain, and she ate until she was satisfied and she had some left [for Naomi]. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/2-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>When she got up to glean, Boaz ordered his servants, “Let her glean even among the sheaves, and do not insult her. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/2-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Also you shall purposely pull out for her some stalks [of grain] from the sheaves and leave them so that she may collect them, and do not rebuke her.” <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/2-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>So she gleaned in the field until evening. Then she beat out what she had gleaned, and it was about an <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[c]</a></span>ephah of barley. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/2-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>She picked it up and went into the city, and her mother-in-law saw what she had gleaned. Ruth also took out and gave to Naomi what she had saved after she [had eaten and] was satisfied. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/2-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Her mother-in-law said to her, “Where did you glean today? Where did you work? Blessed be the man who took notice of you.” 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.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/2-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, “May he be blessed of the LORD who has not ceased His kindness to the living and to the dead.” Again Naomi said to her, “The man is one of our closest relatives, one who has the right to <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[d]</a></span>redeem us.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/2-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Then Ruth the Moabitess said, “He also said to me, ‘Stay close to my servants until they have harvested my entire crop.’” <span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/2-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Naomi said to Ruth, “It is good, my daughter, for you to go out [to work] with his maids, so that others do not assault you in another field.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/2-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>So she stayed close to the maids of Boaz, gleaning until the end of the barley and wheat harvests. And she lived with her mother-in-law.<A name="fn"></a></p><br /><br /><span class="footnotesbot">[a]</span> <span class="fnverse">2</span> Gleaning was a right granted to the poor and to strangers by God--a kind of divinely-appointed welfare system. Farmers were instructed not to glean their fields or vineyards, that is, not to collect the excess stalks of grain or grapes left over by reapers, and not to have the extremities of their fields reaped (Lev 19:9, 10).<br><span class="footnotesbot">[b]</span> <span class="fnverse">7</span> I.e. bundles of stalks bound together for transport to the threshing floor where the grain would be separated.<br><span class="footnotesbot">[c]</span> <span class="fnverse">17</span> This was about one bushel, enough food for several days.<br><span class="footnotesbot">[d]</span> <span class="fnverse">20</span> According to OT law (Lev 25:25), if an Israelite became so impoverished that he sold his property, his closest relative was to buy it back, so that the land would remain within the family. Such a person was called a <i>redeemer</i>. Another law stated that if a married man died childless, his brother was obligated to marry his widow and raise a son in the deceased brother’s name, so that the name would be carried on in Israel (Deut 25:5-10; cf Gen 38:8-10). Being aware of these laws and their applications by the scholars of that time, Naomi conceived of a plan (see ch 3:1-4) that might bring Ruth and Boaz together by having Boaz serve as a redeemer both to purchase a field that Naomi owned, and to fulfill the obligation of Deut 25:5 ff by marrying Ruth.<br></div><br /><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Amplified Bible Copyright © 2015<br>by The Lockman Foundation<br>All rights reserved <a href="http://www.lockman.org">www.lockman.org</a><br><br><a href="/">Bible Hub</a><br>                                                                                                                                <span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../ruth/1.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Ruth 1"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Ruth 1" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../ruth/3.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Ruth 3"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Ruth 3" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>