Ruth 2

1Naomi had a relative of her husband’s, a mighty man of wealth, of the family of Elimelech, and his name was Boaz.Cross-references: Deut 8:17 · Judg 12:8 · Ruth 1:2 · Ruth 3:2 · Ruth 3:12 · Ruth 4:21 · +5 more

2Ruth the Moabitess said to Naomi, “Let me now go to the field, and glean among the ears of grain after him in whose sight I find favor.” She said to her, “Go, my daughter.”Cross-references: Lev 19:9 · Lev 19:16 · Lev 23:22 · Deut 24:19 · Ruth 2:7

3She went, and came and gleaned in the field after the reapers; and she happened to come to the portion of the field belonging to Boaz, who was of the family of Elimelech.Cross-references: 2Ki 8:5 · Esth 6:1 · Matt 10:29 · Luke 10:31 · 1Thess 4:11 · 2Thess 3:12

4Behold, Boaz came from Bethlehem, and said to the reapers, “May Yahweh be with you.” They answered him, “May Yahweh bless you.”Cross-references: Gen 18:19 · Josh 24:15 · Judg 6:12 · Ruth 4:11 · Ps 118:26 · Ps 129:7 · +6 more

5Then Boaz said to his servant who was set over the reapers, “Whose young lady is this?”Cross-references: Ruth 4:21 · 1Chr 2:11

6The servant who was set over the reapers answered, “It is the Moabite lady who came back with Naomi out of the country of Moab.Cross-references: Gen 15:2 · Gen 24:2 · Gen 39:4 · Ruth 1:16 · Ruth 1:19 · Ruth 1:22 · +2 more

7She said, ‘Please let me glean and gather after the reapers among the sheaves.’ So she came, and has continued even from the morning until now, except that she rested a little in the house.”Cross-references: Prov 13:4 · Prov 15:33 · Prov 18:23 · Prov 22:29 · Eccl 9:10 · Matt 5:3 · +4 more

8Then Boaz said to Ruth, “Listen, my daughter. Don’t go to glean in another field, and don’t go from here, but stay here close to my maidens.Cross-references: 1Sam 3:6 · 1Sam 3:16 · 2Ki 5:13 · Song 1:7 · Matt 9:2 · Matt 9:22 · +2 more

9Let your eyes be on the field that they reap, and go after them. Haven’t I commanded the young men not to touch you? When you are thirsty, go to the vessels, and drink from that which the young men have drawn.”Cross-references: Gen 20:6 · Gen 24:18 · Job 19:21 · Ps 105:15 · Prov 6:29 · Matt 10:42 · +3 more

10Then she fell on her face and bowed herself to the ground, and said to him, “Why have I found favor in your sight, that you should take knowledge of me, since I am a foreigner?”Cross-references: Gen 18:2 · Ruth 2:2 · Ruth 2:13 · 1Sam 25:23 · 2Sam 9:8 · 2Sam 19:28 · +8 more

11Boaz answered her, “I have been told all about what you have done for your mother-in-law since the death of your husband, and how you have left your father, your mother, and the land of your birth, and have come to a people that you didn’t know before.Cross-references: Ruth 1:11 · Ruth 1:14 · Ps 37:5 · Ps 45:10 · Luke 5:11 · Luke 5:23 · +4 more

12May Yahweh repay your work, and a full reward be given to you from Yahweh, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to take refuge.”Cross-references: Ruth 1:16 · 1Sam 24:19 · Ps 17:8 · Ps 19:11 · Ps 36:7 · Ps 57:1 · +18 more

13Then she said, “Let me find favor in your sight, my lord, because you have comforted me, and because you have spoken kindly to your servant, though I am not as one of your servants.”Cross-references: Gen 33:8 · Gen 33:10 · Gen 33:15 · Gen 34:3 · Gen 43:14 · Judg 19:3 · +5 more

14At meal time Boaz said to her, “Come here, and eat some bread, and dip your morsel in the vinegar.” She sat beside the reapers, and they passed her parched grain. She ate, was satisfied, and left some of it.Cross-references: Deut 8:10 · Deut 11:15 · Ruth 2:18 · 1Sam 17:17 · 1Sam 25:18 · 2Sam 17:28 · +9 more

15When she had risen up to glean, Boaz commanded his young men, saying, “Let her glean even among the sheaves, and don’t reproach her.Cross-references: James 1:5

16Also pull out some for her from the bundles, and leave it. Let her glean, and don’t rebuke her.”Cross-references: Deut 24:19 · Ps 112:9 · Prov 19:17 · Matt 25:40 · Rom 12:13 · 2Cor 8:5 · +3 more

17So she gleaned in the field until evening; and she beat out that which she had gleaned, and it was about an ephah of barley.Cross-references: Ex 16:36 · Prov 31:27 · Ezek 45:11

18She took it up, and went into the city. Then her mother-in-law saw what she had gleaned; and she brought out and gave to her that which she had left after she had enough.Cross-references: Ruth 2:14 · John 6:12 · 1Tim 5:4

19Her mother-in-law said to her, “Where have you gleaned today? Where have you worked? Blessed be he who noticed you.” She told her mother-in-law with whom she had worked, “The man’s name with whom I worked today is Boaz.”Cross-references: Ruth 2:10 · 1Ki 7:21 · Ps 41:1 · 2Cor 9:13

20Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, “May he be blessed by Yahweh, who has not abandoned his kindness to the living and to the dead.” Naomi said to her, “The man is a close relative to us, one of our near kinsmen.”Cross-references: Lev 25:25 · Deut 25:5 · Ruth 3:9 · Ruth 4:6 · Ruth 4:14 · 2Sam 2:5 · +6 more

21Ruth the Moabitess said, “Yes, he said to me, ‘You shall stay close to my young men until they have finished all my harvest.’”Cross-references: Ruth 2:7 · Ruth 2:22 · Song 1:7

22Naomi said to Ruth her daughter-in-law, “It is good, my daughter, that you go out with his maidens, and that they not harm you in any other field.”Cross-references: Prov 27:10 · Song 1:8

23So she stayed close to the maidens of Boaz, to glean to the end of barley harvest and of wheat harvest; and she lived with her mother-in-law.Cross-references: Deut 16:9 · Prov 6:6 · Prov 13:1 · Prov 13:20 · 1Cor 15:33 · Eph 6:1