10 And he said, (A)“May you be blessed by the Lord, my daughter. You have made this last kindness greater than (B)the first in that you have not gone after young men, whether poor or rich.

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10 “The Lord bless you,(A) my daughter,” he replied. “This kindness is greater than that which you showed earlier:(B) You have not run after the younger men, whether rich or poor.

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20 And Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, (A)“May he be blessed by the Lord, whose kindness has not forsaken (B)the living or the dead!” Naomi also said to her, “The man is a close relative of ours, one of (C)our redeemers.”

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

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Footnotes

  1. Ruth 2:20 The Hebrew word for guardian-redeemer is a legal term for one who has the obligation to redeem a relative in serious difficulty (see Lev. 25:25-55).

(A)Love is patient and (B)kind; love (C)does not envy or boast; it (D)is not arrogant or rude. It (E)does not insist on its own way; it (F)is not irritable or resentful;[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 13:5 Greek irritable and does not count up wrongdoing

Love is patient,(A) love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.(B) It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking,(C) it is not easily angered,(D) it keeps no record of wrongs.(E)

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But Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, “Go, return each of you to her mother's house. May the Lord (A)deal kindly with you, as you have dealt with (B)the dead and with me.

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Then Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, “Go back, each of you, to your mother’s home.(A) May the Lord show you kindness,(B) as you have shown kindness to your dead husbands(C) and to me.

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And behold, Boaz came from Bethlehem. And he said to the reapers, (A)“The Lord be with you!” And they answered, “The Lord bless you.”

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Just then Boaz arrived from Bethlehem and greeted the harvesters, “The Lord be with you!(A)

“The Lord bless you!(B)” they answered.

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