10 Then she fell on her face, and bowed herself to the ground, and said unto him, How have I found favor in thine eyes, that thou shouldest know me, seeing I am a [a]stranger?

11 And Boaz answered and said unto her, All is told and showed me that thou hast done unto thy mother-in-law, since the death of thine husband, and how thou hast left thy father and thy mother, and the land where thou wast born, and art come unto a people which thou knewest not in time past.

12 The Lord recompense thy work, and a full reward be given thee of the Lord God of Israel, under whose [b]wings thou art come to trust.

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Footnotes

  1. Ruth 2:10 Even of the Moabites, which are enemies to God’s people.
  2. Ruth 2:12 Signifying, that she shall never want anything, if she put her trust in God, and live under his protection.

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