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Now Naomi had an in-law there in Bethlehem who was a very wealthy man. His name was Boaz.

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.”

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

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Footnotes

  1. Ruth 2:2 glean the free grain, see Leviticus 19:9 and Deuteronomy 24:19, which established this custom.

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