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And he said to the reapers, “The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> be with you!” And they answered, “The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> bless you.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ruth/2-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Then Boaz said to his young man who was in charge of the reapers, “Whose young woman is this?” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ruth/2-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And the servant who was 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="http://biblehub.com/ruth/2-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>She said, ‘Please let me glean and gather among the sheaves after the reapers.’ So she came, and she has continued from early morning until now, except for a short rest.”<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Compare Septuagint, Vulgate; the meaning of the Hebrew phrase is uncertain">a</a></sup></span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ruth/2-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Then Boaz said to Ruth, “Now, listen, my daughter, do not go to glean in another field or leave this one, but keep close to my young women. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ruth/2-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Let your eyes be on the field that they are reaping, and go after them. Have I not charged the young men not to touch you? And when you are thirsty, go to the vessels and drink what the young men have drawn.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ruth/2-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Then she fell on her face, bowing to the ground, and said to him, “Why have I found favor in your eyes, that you should take notice of me, since I am a foreigner?” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ruth/2-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>But Boaz answered her, “All that you have done for your mother-in-law since the death of your husband has been fully told to me, and how you left your father and mother and your native land and came to a people that you did not know before. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ruth/2-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> repay you for what you have done, and a full reward be given you by the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to take refuge!” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ruth/2-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Then she said, “I have found favor in your eyes, my lord, for you have comforted me and spoken kindly to your servant, though I am not one of your servants.”</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ruth/2-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And at mealtime Boaz said to her, “Come here and eat some bread and dip your morsel in the wine.” So she sat beside the reapers, and he passed to her roasted grain. And she ate until she was satisfied, and she had some left over. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ruth/2-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>When she rose to glean, Boaz instructed his young men, saying, “Let her glean even among the sheaves, and do not reproach her. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ruth/2-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And also pull out some from the bundles for her and leave it for her to glean, and do not rebuke her.”</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/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 ephah<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="An ephah was about 3/5 bushel or 22 liters">b</a></sup></span> of barley. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ruth/2-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And she took it up and went into the city. Her mother-in-law saw what she had gleaned. She also brought out and gave her what food she had left over after being satisfied. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ruth/2-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>And her mother-in-law said to her, “Where did you glean today? And where have you worked? Blessed be the man who took notice of you.” So she told her mother-in-law with whom she had worked and said, “The man’s name with whom I worked today is Boaz.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ruth/2-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>And Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, “May he be blessed by the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, whose kindness has not forsaken the living or the dead!” Naomi also said to her, “The man is a close relative of ours, one of our redeemers.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ruth/2-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>And Ruth the Moabite said, “Besides, he said to me, ‘You shall keep close by my young men until they have finished all my harvest.’” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ruth/2-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>And Naomi said to Ruth, her daughter-in-law, “It is good, my daughter, that you go out with his young women, lest in another field you be assaulted.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ruth/2-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>So she kept close to the young women of Boaz, gleaning until the end of the barley and wheat harvests. And she lived with her mother-in-law.</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">7</span> Compare Septuagint, Vulgate; the meaning of the Hebrew phrase is uncertain<br /><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">17</span> An <i class="catch-word">ephah</i> was about 3/5 bushel or 22 liters<br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. The ESV® text has been reproduced in cooperation with and by permission of Good News Publishers. Unauthorized reproduction of this publication is prohibited. 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