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1 And Naomi had [a friend,] an acquaintance of her husband, and the man [was] a mighty man of the kindred of Elimelech, and his name [was] Boaz.
2 And Ruth the Moabitess said to Naomi, Let me go now to the field, and I will glean among the ears behind the man with whomsoever I shall find favor. And she said to her, Go, daughter.
3 And she went; and came and gleaned in the field behind the reapers; and she happened by chance to come on a portion of the land of Boaz, of the kindred of Elimelech.
4 And behold, Boaz came from Bethlehem, and said to the reapers, The Lord [be] with you. And they said to him, The Lord bless you.
5 And Boaz said to his servant who was set over the reapers, Whose young woman [is] this?
6 And his servant who was set over the reapers answered and said, It is the young Moabite woman who returned with Naomi out of the land of Moab.
7 And she said, I pray you, let me glean and gather among the sheaves after the reapers. And she came and stood from morning till evening, and rested not, [even] a little, in the field.
8 And Boaz said to Ruth, Have you not heard, [my] daughter? Go not to glean in another field; and do not depart from here, [but] join yourself here with my young women.
9 [Let] your eyes [be] on the field where [my men] reap, and you shall go after them. Behold, I have charged the young men not to touch you, and when you shall thirst, then you shall go to the vessels, and drink of that which the young men have drawn.
10 And she fell upon her face, and bowed down to the ground, and said to him, How is it that I have found grace in your eyes, that you should take notice of me, seeing that I am a stranger?
11 And Boaz answered and said to her, It has fully been told to me how you have dealt with your mother-in-law after the death of your husband, and how you left your father and your mother, and the land of your birth, and came to a people whom you knew not before.
12 The Lord recompense your work; may a full reward be given you of the Lord God of Israel, to whom you have come to trust under His wings.
13 And she said, Let me find grace in your sight, my lord, because you have comforted me, and because you have spoken kindly to your maidservant, and behold, I shall be as one of your servants.
14 And Boaz said to her, Now [it is] time to eat; come here, and you shall eat of the bread, and you shall dip your morsel in the vinegar. And Ruth sat by the side of the reapers; and Boaz handed her meal, and she ate, and was satisfied, and left.
15 And she rose up to glean; and Boaz charged his young men, saying, Let her even glean among the sheaves, and reproach her not.
16 And by all means carry it for her, and you shall surely let fall for her some of that which is heaped up; and let her eat, and glean, and rebuke her not.
17 So she gleaned in the field till evening, and beat out that she had gleaned, and it was about an ephah of barely.
18 And she took [it] up, and went into the city. And her mother-in-law saw what she had gleaned, and Ruth brought forth and gave to her the food which she had left from what she had been satisfied with.
19 And her mother-in-law said to her, Where have you gleaned today, and where have you worked? Blessed be he that took notice of you. And Ruth told her mother-in-law where she [had] worked, and said, The name of the man with whom I worked today [is] Boaz.
20 And Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, Blessed is he of the Lord, because He has not failed in His mercy with the living and the dead. And Naomi said to her, This man is our relative, and is one of our relations.
21 And Ruth said to her mother-in-law, Yes, he also said to me, Keep close to my young women, until the men shall have finished all my reaping.
22 And Naomi said to Ruth her daughter-in-law, [It is] well, daughter, that you went out with his young women; thus they shall not meet you in another field.
23 And Ruth joined herself to the young women of Boaz, to glean until they had finished the barley harvest and the wheat harvest.
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