Ruth 2:2-5

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² One day Ruth said to Naomi, “Perhaps I can go out into the fields of some kind man to glean the free grain^[a] behind his reapers.”

And Naomi said, “All right, dear daughter. Go ahead.”

³ So she did. And as it happened, the field where she found herself belonged to Boaz, this relative of Naomi’s husband.

^4-5 Boaz arrived from the city while she was there. After exchanging greetings with the reapers he said to his foreman, “Hey, who’s that girl over there?”