⁸ So Boaz said to Ruth, “My daughter, listen to me. Don’t go and glean in another field and don’t go away from here. Stay here with the women who work for me. ⁹ Watch the field where the men are harvesting, and follow along after the women. I have told the men not to lay a hand on you. And whenever you are thirsty, go and get a drink from the water jars the men have filled.”

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

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