Ruth 2:15-23 (New International Version)
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15
As she got up to glean, Boaz gave orders to his men, "Even if she gathers among the sheaves,1 don't embarrass her.
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Rather, pull out some stalks for her from the bundles and leave them for her to pick up, and don't rebuke2 her."
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So Ruth gleaned in the field until evening. Then she threshed3 the barley she had gathered, and it amounted to about an ephah.a4
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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 over5 after she had eaten enough.
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Her mother-in-law asked her, "Where did you glean today? Where did you work? Blessed be the man who took notice of you!6" 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.
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"The LORD bless him!7" Naomi said to her daughter-in-law.8 "He has not stopped showing his kindness9 to the living and the dead." She added, "That man is our close relative;10 he is one of our kinsman-redeemers.11"
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Then Ruth the Moabitess12 said, "He even said to me, 'Stay with my workers until they finish harvesting all my grain.' "
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Naomi said to Ruth her daughter-in-law, "It will be good for you, my daughter, to go with his girls, because in someone else's field you might be harmed."
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So Ruth stayed close to the servant girls of Boaz to glean until the barley13 and wheat harvests14 were finished. And she lived with her mother-in-law.
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