¹⁹ Indeed now, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have increased your mercy which you have shown me by saving my life; but I cannot escape to the mountains, lest some evil overtake me and I die.

⁴ So Joseph ^(A)found favor in his sight, and served him. Then he made him ^(B)overseer of his house, and all that he had he put ^[a]under his authority.

² So Ruth the Moabitess said to Naomi, “Please let me go to the ^(A)field, and glean heads of grain after him in whose sight I may find favor.”

And she said to her, “Go, my daughter.”

¹⁰ So she ^(A)fell on her face, bowed down to the ground, and said to him, “Why have I found ^(B)favor in your eyes, that you should take notice of me, since I am a foreigner?”

¹³ Then she said, ^(A)“Let me find favor in your sight, my lord; for you have comforted me, and have spoken ^[a]kindly to your maidservant, ^(B)though I am not like one of your maidservants.”

¹⁸ And she said, ^(A)“Let your maidservant find favor in your sight.” So the woman ^(B)went her way and ate, and her face was no longer sad.

¹⁵ Now when the turn came for Esther ^(A)the daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her as his daughter, to go in to the king, she requested nothing but what Hegai the king’s eunuch, the custodian of the women, advised. And Esther ^(B)obtained favor in the sight of all who saw her.