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17 So she gleaned in the field until evening; and she beat out that which she had gleaned, and it was about an ephah of barley. 18 She took it up, and went into the city; and her mother-in-law saw what she had gleaned: and she brought out and gave to her that which she had left after she was sufficed. 19 Her mother-in-law said to her, |Where have you gleaned today? And where have you worked? Blessed be he who noticed you.| She showed her mother-in-law with whom she had worked, and said, |The man's name with whom I worked today is Boaz.| 20 Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, |Blessed be he of the LORD, who has not left off 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.| 21 And Ruth the Moabitess said, |He even said to me, 'You shall stay close to my young men, until they have ended all my harvest.'| 22 Naomi said to Ruth her daughter-in-law, |It is good, my daughter, that you go out with his maidens, and that they not meet you in any other field.| 23 So 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. Ruth 2:17-23, New Heart English Bible. Public domain.
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