Ruth 2:17-23

17So she gleaned in the field until evening. Then she beat out what she had gleaned, and it was about an ephah of barley.

18She took it up and went into the city, and her mother-in-law saw what she had gleaned. She also took it out and 1gave 2Naomi what she had left after 3she was satisfied.

19Her mother-in-law then said to her, “Where did you glean today and where did you work? May he who 4took notice of you be blessed.” So she told her mother-in-law with whom she had worked and said, “The name of the man with whom I worked today is Boaz.”

20Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, “5May he be blessed of the Lord who has not withdrawn his kindness to the living and to the dead.” Again Naomi said to her, “The man is 6our relative, he is one of our 7closest relatives.”

21Then Ruth the Moabitess said, “8Furthermore, he said to me, ‘You should stay close to my servants until they have finished all my harvest.’”

22Naomi said to Ruth her daughter-in-law, “It is good, my daughter, that you go out with his maids, so that others do not fall upon you in another field.”

23So she stayed close by the maids of Boaz in order to glean until 9the end of the barley harvest and the wheat harvest. And she lived with her mother-in-law.