of Yahweh, the God of Israel, under whose wings you are come
to take refuge.
002:013 Then she said, Let me find favor in your sight, my lord,
because you have comforted me, and because you have spoken kindly
to your handmaid, though I am not as one of your handmaidens.
002:014 At meal time Boaz said to her, Come here, and eat of the bread,
and dip your morsel in the vinegar. She sat beside the reapers,
and they reached her parched grain, and she ate, and was sufficed,
and left of it.
002:015 When she was risen up to glean, Boaz commanded his
young men, saying, Let her glean even among the sheaves,
and don't reproach her.
002:016 Also pull out some for her from the bundles, and leave it,
and let her glean, and don't rebuke her.
002:017 So she gleaned in the field until even; and she beat out that
which she had gleaned, and it was about an ephah of barley.
002:018 She took it up, and went into the city; and her mother-in-law
saw what she had gleaned: and she brought forth and gave
to her that which she had left after she was sufficed.
002:019 Her mother-in-law said to her, Where have you gleaned today? and
where have you worked? blessed be he who did take knowledge of you.
She shown her mother-in-law with whom she had worked, and said,
The man's name with whom I worked today is Boaz.
002:020 Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, Blessed be he of Yahweh,
who has not left off his kindness to the living and to the dead.
Naomi said to her, The man is a close relative to us,
one of our near kinsmen.
002:021 Ruth the Moabitess said, Yes, he said to me, You shall keep
fast by my young men, until they have ended all my harvest.
002:022 Naomi said to Ruth her daughter-in-law, It is good, my daughter,
that you go out with his maidens, and that they not meet you
in any other field.
002:023 So she kept fast by the maidens of Boaz, to glean to the end
of barley harvest and of wheat harvest; and she lived
with her mother-in-law.
003:001 Naomi her mother-in-law said to her, My daughter, shall I
not seek rest for you, that it may be well with you?
003:002 Now isn't Boaz our kinsman, with whose maidens you were?
Behold, he winnows barley tonight in the threshing floor.
003:003 Wash yourself therefore, and anoint you, and put your clothing
on you, and get you down to the threshing floor, but don't
make yourself known to the man, until he shall have done
eating and drinking.
003:004 It shall be, when he lies down, that you shall mark the place
where he shall lie, and you shall go in, and uncover his feet,
and lay you down; and he will tell you what you shall do.
003:005 She said to her, All that you say I will do.
003:006 She went down to the threshing floor, and did according to all
that her mother-in-law told her.
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