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18 She took it up and went into the city, and her mother-in-law saw what she had gleaned. She also took it out and (A)gave [a]Naomi what she had left after [b]she was satisfied. 19 Her mother-in-law then said to her, “Where did you glean today and where did you [c]work? May he who (B)took notice of you be blessed.” So she told her mother-in-law with whom she had [d]worked and said, “The name of the man with whom I worked today is Boaz.” 20 Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, “(C)May he be blessed of Yahweh who has not forsaken his lovingkindness to the living and to the dead.” Then Naomi said to her, “The man is [e]our relative; he is one of our kinsman redeemers.”

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Footnotes

  1. Ruth 2:18 Lit her
  2. Ruth 2:18 Lit her satiety
  3. Ruth 2:19 Lit do, cf. 1:8, 17; 2:11
  4. Ruth 2:19 Lit done, cf. 1:8, 17; 2:11
  5. Ruth 2:20 Lit near to us