18 Then she took it up and went into the city, and her mother-in-law saw what she had gleaned. So she brought out and gave to her (A)what she had kept back after she had been satisfied.

19 And her mother-in-law said to her, “Where have you gleaned today? And where did you work? Blessed be the one who (B)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.”

20 Then Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, (C)“Blessed be he of the Lord, who (D)has not forsaken His kindness to the living and the dead!” And Naomi said to her, “This man is a relation of ours, (E)one of [a]our close relatives.”

21 Ruth the Moabitess said, “He also said to me, ‘You shall stay close by my young men until they have finished all my harvest.’ ”

22 And Naomi said to Ruth her daughter-in-law, “It is good, my daughter, that you go out with his young women, and that people do not [b]meet you in any other field.” 23 So she stayed close by the young women of Boaz, to glean until the end of barley harvest and wheat harvest; and she dwelt with her mother-in-law.

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Footnotes

  1. Ruth 2:20 our redeemers, Heb. goalenu
  2. Ruth 2:22 encounter

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