Ruth 2:18-23 ▼

18 She carried it back to town, and her mother-in-law saw how much grain she had gathered. Then Ruth gave her the roasted grain she had saved from mealtime.

19 Her mother-in-law asked her, |Where did you gather grain today? Where did you work? May the one who took notice of you be rewarded!| So Ruth told her mother-in-law with whom she had worked. She said, |The name of the man with whom I worked today is Boaz.|

20 Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, |May he be rewarded by the LORD because he has shown loyalty to the living on behalf of the dead!| Then Naomi said to her, |This man is a close relative of ours; he is our guardian.|

21 Ruth the Moabite replied, |He even told me, 'You may go along beside my servants until they have finished gathering all my harvest!'|

22 Naomi then said to her daughter-in-law Ruth, |It is good, my daughter, that you should go out to work with his female servants. That way you will not be harmed, which could happen in another field.|

23 So Ruth worked beside Boaz's female servants, gathering grain until the end of the barley harvest as well as the wheat harvest. After that she stayed home with her mother-in-law.