15. As she rose to glean, Boaz instructed his young people: “Let her glean among the sheaves themselves without scolding her,
16. and even drop some handfuls and leave them for her to glean; do not rebuke her.”
17. She gleaned in the field until evening, and when she beat out what she had gleaned it came to about an ephah of barley,
18. which she took into the town and showed to her mother-in-law. Next she brought out what she had left over from the meal and gave it to her.
19. So her mother-in-law said to her, “Where did you glean today? Where did you go to work? May the one who took notice of you be blessed!” Then she told her mother-in-law with whom she had worked. “The man at whose place I worked today is named Boaz,” she said.
20. “May he be blessed by the Lord, who never fails to show kindness to the living and to the dead,” Naomi exclaimed to her daughter-in-law. She continued, “This man is a near relative of ours, one of our redeemers.”
21. “He even told me,” added Ruth the Moabite, “Stay with my young people until they complete my entire harvest.”
22. “You would do well, my daughter,” Naomi rejoined, “to work with his young women; in someone else’s field you might be insulted.”
23. So she stayed gleaning with Boaz’s young women until the end of the barley and wheat harvests.