Ruth 2:1-3

New Century Version

Ruth Meets Boaz

2 Now Naomi had a rich relative named Boaz, from Elimelech’s family.

² One day Ruth, the Moabite, said to Naomi, “I am going to the fields. Maybe someone will be kind enough to let me gather the grain he leaves behind.”

Naomi said, “Go, my daughter.”

³ So Ruth went to the fields and gathered the grain that the workers cutting the grain had left behind. It just so happened that the field belonged to Boaz, from Elimelech’s family.