And she went, and came
That is, she went out of the house where she was, and out of the
city, and came into the field; though, according to the Midrash
F16, she marked the ways as she went,
before she entered into the field, and then came back to the city
to observe the marks and signs she made, that she might not
mistake the way, and might know how to come back again:
and gleaned in the field after the reapers;
when they had cut down and bound up the corn, what fell and was
left she picked up, having first asked leave so to do:
and her hap was to light on a part of the field belonging
unto Boaz,
who was of the kindred of Elimelech;
the providence of God so ordering and directing it; for though it
was hap and chance to her, and what some people call good luck,
it was according to the purpose, and by the providence and
direction of God that she came to the reapers in that part of the
field Boaz, a near kinsman of her father-in-law, was owner of,
and asked leave of them to glean and follow them.