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Ruth 2 :: English Standard Version (ESV)

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Ruth Meets Boaz

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:1 - Now Naomi had a relative of her husband’s, a worthy man of the clan of Elimelech, whose name was Boaz.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:2 - And Ruth the Moabite said to Naomi, “Let me go to the field and glean among the ears of grain after him in whose sight I shall find favor.” And she said to her, “Go, my daughter.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:3 - So she set out and went and gleaned in the field after the reapers, and she happened to come to the part of the field belonging to Boaz, who was of the clan of Elimelech.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:4 - And behold, Boaz came from Bethlehem. And he said to the reapers, “The LORD be with you!” And they answered, “The LORD bless you.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:5 - Then Boaz said to his young man who was in charge of the reapers, “Whose young woman is this?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:6 - And the servant who was in charge of the reapers answered, “She is the young Moabite woman, who came back with Naomi from the country of Moab.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:7 - She said, ‘Please let me glean and gather among the sheaves after the reapers.’ So she came, and she has continued from early morning until now, except for a short rest.”[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:8 - Then Boaz said to Ruth, “Now, listen, my daughter, do not go to glean in another field or leave this one, but keep close to my young women.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 2:9

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:9 - Let your eyes be on the field that they are reaping, and go after them. Have I not charged the young men not to touch you? And when you are thirsty, go to the vessels and drink what the young men have drawn.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:10 - Then she fell on her face, bowing to the ground, and said to him, “Why have I found favor in your eyes, that you should take notice of me, since I am a foreigner?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:11 - But Boaz answered her, “All that you have done for your mother-in-law since the death of your husband has been fully told to me, and how you left your father and mother and your native land and came to a people that you did not know before.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:12 - The LORD repay you for what you have done, and a full reward be given you by the LORD, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to take refuge!”

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:13 - Then she said, “I have found favor in your eyes, my lord, for you have comforted me and spoken kindly to your servant, though I am not one of your servants.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:14 - And at mealtime Boaz said to her, “Come here and eat some bread and dip your morsel in the wine.” So she sat beside the reapers, and he passed to her roasted grain. And she ate until she was satisfied, and she had some left over.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:15 - When she rose to glean, Boaz instructed his young men, saying, “Let her glean even among the sheaves, and do not reproach her.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:16 - And also pull out some from the bundles for her and leave it for her to glean, and do not rebuke her.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:17 - So she gleaned in the field until evening. Then she beat out what she had gleaned, and it was about an ephah[fn] of barley.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:18 - And she took it up and went into the city. Her mother-in-law saw what she had gleaned. She also brought out and gave her what food she had left over after being satisfied.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:19 - And her mother-in-law said to her, “Where did you glean today? And where have you worked? Blessed be the man who took notice of you.” So she told her mother-in-law with whom she had worked and said, “The man’s name with whom I worked today is Boaz.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:20 - And Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, “May he be blessed by the LORD, whose kindness has not forsaken the living or the dead!” Naomi also said to her, “The man is a close relative of ours, one of our redeemers.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:21 - And Ruth the Moabite said, “Besides, he said to me, ‘You shall keep close by my young men until they have finished all my harvest.’”

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:22 - And Naomi said to Ruth, her daughter-in-law, “It is good, my daughter, that you go out with his young women, lest in another field you be assaulted.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:23 - So she kept close to the young women of Boaz, gleaning until the end of the barley and wheat harvests. And she lived with her mother-in-law.
See the ESV Preface (Especially for Parenthesis, Brackets, & Asterisks).
ESV Footnotes
Compare Septuagint, Vulgate; the meaning of the Hebrew phrase is uncertain
An ephah was about 3/5 bushel or 22 liters
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Ruth Chapter 2 — Additional Translations:

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