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14 At mealtime Boaz said to her, “[a]Come here, that you may eat of the bread and dip your piece of bread in the vinegar.” So she sat beside the reapers; and he [b]served her roasted grain, and she ate and was satisfied (A)and had some left. 15 Then she rose to glean, and Boaz commanded his young men, saying, “Let her glean even among the sheaves, and do not dishonor her. 16 Also you shall purposely pull out for her some grain from the bundles and [c]leave it that she may glean, and do not rebuke her.”

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  1. Ruth 2:14 Lit Draw near
  2. Ruth 2:14 Lit held out to
  3. Ruth 2:16 Or forsake, cf. 1:16; 2:11, 20