Ruth 2:14-20

New International Version

¹⁴ At mealtime Boaz said to her, “Come over here. Have some bread^(A) and dip it in the wine vinegar.”

When she sat down with the harvesters,^(B) he offered her some roasted grain.^(C) She ate all she wanted and had some left over.^{(D) 15} As she got up to glean, Boaz gave orders to his men, “Let her gather among the sheaves^(E) and don’t reprimand her. ¹⁶ Even pull out some stalks for her from the bundles and leave them for her to pick up, and don’t rebuke^(F) her.”

¹⁷ So Ruth gleaned in the field until evening. Then she threshed^(G) the barley she had gathered, and it amounted to about an ephah.^{[a](H) 18} She carried it back to town, and her mother-in-law saw how much she had gathered. Ruth also brought out and gave her what she had left over^(I) after she had eaten enough.

¹⁹ Her mother-in-law asked her, “Where did you glean today? Where did you work? Blessed be the man who took notice of you!^(J)”

Then Ruth told her mother-in-law about the one at whose place she had been working. “The name of the man I worked with today is Boaz,” she said.

²⁰ “The Lord bless him!^(K)” Naomi said to her daughter-in-law.^(L) “He has not stopped showing his kindness^(M) to the living and the dead.” She added, “That man is our close relative;^(N) he is one of our guardian-redeemers.^[b](O)”