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18 When she picked it up and went into town, her mother-in-law saw how much she had gleaned. Ruth also took what she had left over from her meal and gave it to Naomi.

19 Then her mother-in-law said to her, “Where did you glean today and where did you work? May the man who took notice of you be blessed!”

So she told her mother-in-law in whose field she had worked: “The name of the man in whose field I worked today is Boaz.”

20 Then Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, “May he be blessed by the Lord, whose faithfulness[a] has not forsaken[b] the living and the dead!”

Naomi also said to her, “This man is related to us. He is even one of our family’s redeemers.”[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Ruth 2:20 Or mercy
  2. Ruth 2:20 Or who has not withdrawn his kindness to
  3. Ruth 2:20 The redeemer (Hebrew goel) was a kind of guardian who gave legal and financial support to less-well-off relatives. The goel also served as the avenger of blood.