¹⁹ Her mother-in-law asked her, “Where did you glean today? Where did you work? Blessed be the man who took notice of you!^(A)”

Then Ruth told her mother-in-law about the one at whose place she had been working. “The name of the man I worked with today is Boaz,” she said.

²⁰ “The Lord bless him!^(B)” Naomi said to her daughter-in-law.^(C) “He has not stopped showing his kindness^(D) to the living and the dead.” She added, “That man is our close relative;^(E) he is one of our guardian-redeemers.^[a](F)”

²¹ Then Ruth the Moabite^(G) said, “He even said to me, ‘Stay with my workers until they finish harvesting all my grain.’”