Ruth 2:1-3

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Ruth meets Boaz

2 Boaz was a rich and important man who lived in Bethlehem. He was from the family of Naomi's husband, Elimelech.

² One day, Ruth, the woman from Moab, said to Naomi, ‘Let me go to the fields to pick up some grain from the harvest. I will walk behind anyone who lets me do that.’ Naomi said, ‘Yes, my daughter, go and do that.’ ³ So Ruth went to the fields. She began to pick up the grains of barley that the men dropped on the ground.^[a] It happened that she was in part of a field that belonged to Boaz. Boaz was from Elimelech's clan.