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.