¹⁰ Then he said, ^(A)“Blessed are you of the Lord, my daughter! For you have shown more kindness at the end than ^(B)at the beginning, in that you did not go after young men, whether poor or rich.

²⁰ Then Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, ^(A)“Blessed be he of the Lord, who ^(B)has not forsaken His kindness to the living and the dead!” And Naomi said to her, “This man is a relation of ours, ^(C)one of ^[a]our close relatives.”

^4 (A)Love suffers long and is ^(B)kind; love ^(C)does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not ^[a]puffed up; ⁵ does not behave rudely, ^(D)does not seek its own, is not provoked, ^[b]thinks no evil;

⁸ And Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, ^(A)“Go, return each to her mother’s house. ^(B)The Lord deal kindly with you, as you have dealt ^(C)with the dead and with me.

⁴ Now behold, Boaz came from ^(A)Bethlehem, and said to the reapers, ^(B)“The Lord be with you!”

And they answered him, “The Lord bless you!”