Ruth 2
1 And Naomi had a kinsman of her husband's, a mighty man of wealth, of the
family of Elimelech, and his name was Boaz.
2 And Ruth the Moabitess said unto Naomi, Let me now go to the field, and glean
among the ears of grain after him in whose sight I shall find favor. And she
said unto her, Go, my daughter.
3 And she went, and came and gleaned in the field after the reapers: and her hap
was to light on the portion of the field belonging unto Boaz, who was of the
family of Elimelech.
4 And, behold, Boaz came from Beth-lehem, and said unto the reapers, Jehovah be
with you. And they answered him, Jehovah bless thee.
5 Then said Boaz unto his servant that was set over the reapers, Whose damsel is
this?
6 And the servant that was set over the reapers answered and said, It is the
Moabitish damsel that came back with Naomi out of the country of Moab:
7 And she said, Let me glean, I pray you, and gather after the reapers among the
sheaves. So she came, and hath continued even from the morning until now, save
that she tarried a little in the house.
8 Then said Boaz unto Ruth, Hearest thou not, my daughter? Go not to glean in
another field, neither pass from hence, but abide here fast by my maidens.
9 Let thine eyes be on the field that they do reap, and go thou after them: have
I not charged the young men that they shall not touch thee? and when thou art
athirst, go unto the vessels, and drink of that which the young men have drawn.
10 Then she fell on her face, and bowed herself to the ground, and said unto
him, Why have I found favor in thy sight, that thou shouldest take knowledge of
me, seeing I am a foreigner?
11 And Boaz answered and said unto her, It hath fully been showed me, all that
thou hast done unto thy mother-in-law since the death of thy husband; and how
thou hast left thy father and thy mother, and the land of thy nativity, and art
come unto a people that thou knewest not heretofore.
12 Jehovah recompense thy work, and a full reward be given thee of Jehovah, the
God of Israel, under whose wings thou art come to take refuge.
13 Then she said, Let me find favor in thy sight, my lord, for that thou hast
comforted me, and for that thou hast spoken kindly unto thy handmaid, though I
be not as one of thy handmaidens.
14 And at meal-time Boaz said unto her, Come hither, and eat of the bread, and
dip thy morsel in the vinegar. And she sat beside the reapers, and they reached
her parched grain, and she did eat, and was sufficed, and left thereof.
15 And when she was risen up to glean, Boaz commanded his young men, saying, Let
her glean even among the sheaves, and reproach her not.
16 And also pull out some for her from the bundles, and leave it, and let her
glean, and rebuke her not.
17 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.
18 And 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.
19 And her mother-in-law said unto her, Where hast thou gleaned to-day? and
where hast thou wrought? blessed be he that did take knowledge of thee. And she
showed her mother-in-law with whom she had wrought, and said, The man's name
with whom I wrought to-day is Boaz.
20 And Naomi said unto her daughter-in-law, Blessed be he of Jehovah, who hath
not left off his kindness to the living and to the dead. And Naomi said unto
her, The man is nigh of kin unto us, one of our near kinsmen.
21 And Ruth the Moabitess said, Yea, he said unto me, Thou shalt keep fast by my
young men, until they have ended all my harvest.
22 And Naomi said unto Ruth her daughter-in-law, It is good, my daughter, that
thou go out with his maidens, and that they meet thee not in any other field.
23 So she kept fast by the maidens of Boaz, to glean unto the end of barley
harvest and of wheat harvest; and she dwelt with her mother-in-law.