5. Boaz asked his young servant who was foreman over the farm hands, “Who is this young woman? Where did she come from?”
10. She dropped to her knees, then bowed her face to the ground. “How does this happen that you should pick me out and treat me so kindly—me, a foreigner?”
13. She said, “Oh sir, such grace, such kindness—I don’t deserve it. You’ve touched my heart, treated me like one of your own. And I don’t even belong here!”
14. At the lunch break, Boaz said to her, “Come over here; eat some bread. Dip it in the wine.”So she joined the harvesters. Boaz passed the roasted grain to her. She ate her fill and even had some left over.
19. Naomi asked her, “So where did you glean today? Whose field? God bless whoever it was who took such good care of you!”Ruth told her mother-in-law, “The man with whom I worked today? His name is Boaz.”
20. Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, “Why, God bless that man! God hasn’t quite walked out on us after all! He still loves us, in bad times as well as good!”Naomi went on, “That man, Ruth, is one of our circle of covenant redeemers, a close relative of ours!”
21. Ruth the Moabitess said, “Well, listen to this: He also told me, ‘Stick with my workers until my harvesting is finished.’”