¹⁸ Then she took it up and went into the city, and her mother-in-law saw what she had gleaned. So she brought out and gave to her ^(A)what she had kept back after she had been satisfied.

¹⁹ And her mother-in-law said to her, “Where have you gleaned today? And where did you work? Blessed be the one who ^(B)took notice of you.”

So she told her mother-in-law with whom she had worked, and said, “The man’s name with whom I worked today is Boaz.”

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