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So Ruth went to the fields. She began to pick up the grains of barley that the men dropped on the ground.[a] It happened that she was in part of a field that belonged to Boaz. Boaz was from Elimelech's clan.

Just then, Boaz arrived from Bethlehem town. He said ‘hello’ to the workers. ‘I pray that the Lord will help you,’ he said. The men replied, ‘We pray that the Lord will bless you!’

Boaz asked the leader of his workers, ‘Who is that young woman? Which family does she belong to?’

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Footnotes

  1. 2:3 When the workers cut the crops of grain in the fields, they did not take it all. They left some on the ground for poor people and foreign people to pick up. God's Law said that they must do that. See Leviticus 23:22; Deuteronomy 24:19-22.

So she went out, entered a field and began to glean behind the harvesters.(A) As it turned out, she was working in a field belonging to Boaz, who was from the clan of Elimelek.(B)

Just then Boaz arrived from Bethlehem and greeted the harvesters, “The Lord be with you!(C)

“The Lord bless you!(D)” they answered.

Boaz asked the overseer of his harvesters, “Who does that young woman belong to?”

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