⁹ “‘When you reap the harvest of your land, do not reap to the very edges^(A) of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest.^{(B) 10} Do not go over your vineyard a second time^(C) or pick up the grapes that have fallen.^(D) Leave them for the poor and the foreigner.^(E) I am the Lord your God.

¹⁹ When you are harvesting in your field and you overlook a sheaf, do not go back to get it.^(A) Leave it for the foreigner,^(B) the fatherless and the widow,^(C) so that the Lord your God may bless^(D) you in all the work of your hands.

² And Ruth the Moabite^(A) said to Naomi, “Let me go to the fields and pick up the leftover grain^(B) behind anyone in whose eyes I find favor.^(C)”

Naomi said to her, “Go ahead, my daughter.” ³ So she went out, entered a field and began to glean behind the harvesters.^(D) As it turned out, she was working in a field belonging to Boaz, who was from the clan of Elimelek.^(E)