⁹ And he said, “Who are you?”

So she answered, “I am Ruth, your maidservant. ^(A)Take^[a] your maidservant under your wing, for you are ^(B)a ^[b]close relative.”

⁸ “When I passed by you again and looked upon you, indeed your time was the time of love; ^(A)so I spread ^[a]My wing over you and covered your nakedness. Yes, I ^(B)swore an oath to you and entered into a ^(C)covenant with you, and ^(D)you became Mine,” says the Lord God.

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.”

¹² Now it is true that I am a ^(A)close relative; however, ^(B)there is a relative closer than I.

^11 (A)For whoever exalts himself will be ^[a]humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.”

¹⁰ So she ^(A)fell on her face, bowed down to the ground, and said to him, “Why have I found ^(B)favor in your eyes, that you should take notice of me, since I am a foreigner?”

¹¹ And Boaz answered and said to her, “It has been fully reported to me, ^(C)all that you have done for your mother-in-law since the death of your husband, and how you have left your father and your mother and the land of your birth, and have come to a people whom you did not know before. ^12 (D)The Lord repay your work, and a full reward be given you by the Lord God of Israel, ^(E)under whose wings you have come for refuge.”

¹³ Then she said, ^(F)“Let me find favor in your sight, my lord; for you have comforted me, and have spoken ^[a]kindly to your maidservant, ^(G)though I am not like one of your maidservants.”

⁴¹ Then she arose, bowed her face to the earth, and said, “Here is your maidservant, a servant to ^(A)wash the feet of the servants of my lord.”