Ruth 2:8-16 - Boaz Speaks With Ruth

⁸ Then Boaz said to Ruth: Listen to me, my daughter; do not go to pick up the grain in another field. Do not leave here, but stay with my servant girls. ⁹ Keep your eyes on the field the men are harvesting and follow with the girls. I told the men not to touch you. When you are thirsty, drink from the water jars the men keep filled.

¹⁰ Then she bowed down on her face to the earth, and said to him: Why have I found favor in your eyes? For you give me attention and I am a foreigner.

¹¹ Boaz answered: I have heard about everything you have done for your mother-in-law after the death of your husband. You went away from your father and mother and the land of your birth, and came to a people who are strange to you. ¹² May Jehovah reward you for what you have done. May you have a full reward from Jehovah the God of Israel, to whom you have come for protection!

¹³ Ruth answered: You are very kind to me, sir. You make me feel better by speaking gently to me, even though I do not even have the standing of one of your servants.

¹⁴ At mealtime Boaz said to her: Come here, that you may eat of the bread and dip your piece of bread in the vinegar. So she sat beside the reapers. He served her roasted grain. She ate and was satisfied and had some left over.

¹⁵ She rose to glean. Boaz commanded his servants, saying: Let her glean among the sheaves, and do not bother her. ¹⁶ Pull some heads of grain out of what has been corded up and drop them for her to take. Say no sharp word to her.