¹⁸ She carried it back to town, and her mother-in-law saw how much she had gathered. Ruth also brought out and gave her what she had left over^(A) after she had eaten enough.

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!^(B)”

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

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

²² Naomi said to Ruth her daughter-in-law, “It will be good for you, my daughter, to go with the women who work for him, because in someone else’s field you might be harmed.”

²³ So Ruth stayed close to the women of Boaz to glean until the barley^(I) and wheat harvests^(J) were finished. And she lived with her mother-in-law.