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Boaz Shows Kindness to Ruth

Boaz then addressed Ruth: “Listen, my daughter![a] Don’t glean in any other field. Don’t even leave this one, and be sure to stay close to my women servants. Keep your eyes on the field where they are harvesting, and follow them. I’ve ordered my young men not to bother[b] you, haven’t I? And when you are thirsty, drink from the water vessels that the young men have filled.”

10 At this she fell prostrate, bowing low to the ground, and asked him, “Why is it that you’re showing me kindness by noticing me, since I’m a foreigner?”

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Footnotes

  1. Ruth 2:8 Lit. Will you not listen, my daughter?
  2. Ruth 2:9 Or touch

So Boaz said to Ruth, “My daughter, listen to me. Don’t go and glean in another field and don’t go away from here. Stay here with the women who work for me. Watch the field where the men are harvesting, and follow along after the women. I have told the men not to lay a hand on you. And whenever you are thirsty, go and get a drink from the water jars the men have filled.”

10 At this, she bowed down with her face to the ground.(A) She asked him, “Why have I found such favor in your eyes that you notice me(B)—a foreigner?(C)

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