⁹ “‘When you reap the harvest of your land, do not reap to the very edges^(A) of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest.^{(B) 10} Do not go over your vineyard a second time^(C) or pick up the grapes that have fallen.^(D) Leave them for the poor and the foreigner.^(E) I am the Lord your God.

¹⁹ When you are harvesting in your field and you overlook a sheaf, do not go back to get it.^(A) Leave it for the foreigner,^(B) the fatherless and the widow,^(C) so that the Lord your God may bless^(D) you in all the work of your hands.

¹⁵ As she got up to glean, Boaz gave orders to his men, “Let her gather among the sheaves^(A) and don’t reprimand her. ¹⁶ Even pull out some stalks for her from the bundles and leave them for her to pick up, and don’t rebuke^(B) her.”

¹⁷ So Ruth gleaned in the field until evening. Then she threshed^(C) the barley she had gathered, and it amounted to about an ephah.^{[a](D) 18} She carried it back to town, and her mother-in-law saw how much she had gathered. Ruth also brought out and gave her what she had left over^(E) after she had eaten enough.

¹⁹ Her mother-in-law asked her, “Where did you glean today? Where did you work? Blessed be the man who took notice of you!^(F)”

Then Ruth told her mother-in-law about the one at whose place she had been working. “The name of the man I worked with today is Boaz,” she said.

²⁰ “The Lord bless him!^(G)” Naomi said to her daughter-in-law.^(H) “He has not stopped showing his kindness^(I) to the living and the dead.” She added, “That man is our close relative;^(J) he is one of our guardian-redeemers.^[b](K)”

²¹ Then Ruth the Moabite^(L) said, “He even said to me, ‘Stay with my workers until they finish harvesting all my grain.’”

²² Naomi said to Ruth her daughter-in-law, “It will be good for you, my daughter, to go with the women who work for him, because in someone else’s field you might be harmed.”

²³ So Ruth stayed close to the women of Boaz to glean until the barley^(M) and wheat harvests^(N) were finished. And she lived with her mother-in-law.