13. She said, “May I prove worthy of your favor, my lord. You have comforted me. You have spoken to the heart of your servant—and I am not even one of your servants!”
14. At mealtime Boaz said to her, “Come here and have something to eat; dip your bread in the sauce.” Then as she sat near the harvesters, he handed her some roasted grain and she ate her fill and had some left over.
15. As she rose to glean, Boaz instructed his young people: “Let her glean among the sheaves themselves without scolding her,
16. and even drop some handfuls and leave them for her to glean; do not rebuke her.”