Ruth Chapter 2

• Ruth 2:1
  Ruth.
• Ruth 2:2
  Naomi had a relative of her husband’s, a mighty man of wealth, of the family of Elimelech, and his name was Boaz.
• Ruth 2:3
  Ruth the Moabitess said to Naomi, “Let me now go to the field, and glean among the ears of grain after him in whose sight I find favor.” She said to h...
• Ruth 2:4
  She went, and came and gleaned in the field after the reapers; and she happened to come to the portion of the field belonging to Boaz, who was of the ...
• Ruth 2:5
  Behold, Boaz came from Bethlehem, and said to the reapers, “May the LORD be with you.” They answered him, “May the LORD bless you.”
• Ruth 2:6
  Then Boaz said to his servant who was set over the reapers, “Whose young lady is this?”
• Ruth 2:7
  The servant who was set over the reapers answered, “It is the Moabite lady who came back with Naomi out of the country of Moab.
• Ruth 2:8
  She said, ‘Please let me glean and gather after the reapers among the sheaves.’ So she came, and has continued even from the morning until now, except...
• Ruth 2:9
  Then Boaz said to Ruth, “Listen, my daughter. Don’t go to glean in another field, and don’t go from here, but stay here close to my maidens.
• Ruth 2:10
  Let your eyes be on the field that they reap, and go after them. Haven’t I commanded the young men not to touch you? When you are thirsty, go to the v...
• Ruth 2:11
  Then she fell on her face and bowed herself to the ground, and said to him, “Why have I found favor in your sight, that you should take knowledge of m...
• Ruth 2:12
  Boaz answered her, “I have been told all about what you have done for your mother-in-law since the death of your husband, and how you have left your f...
• Ruth 2:13
  May the LORD repay your work, and a full reward be given to you from the LORD, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to take refuge.”
• Ruth 2:14
  Then she said, “Let me find favor in your sight, my lord, because you have comforted me, and because you have spoken kindly to your servant, though I ...
• Ruth 2:15
  At meal time Boaz said to her, “Come here, and eat some bread, and dip your morsel in the vinegar.” She sat beside the reapers, and they passed her pa...
• Ruth 2:16
  When she had risen up to glean, Boaz commanded his young men, saying, “Let her glean even among the sheaves, and don’t reproach her.
• Ruth 2:17
  Also pull out some for her from the bundles, and leave it. Let her glean, and don’t rebuke her.”
• Ruth 2:18
  So she gleaned in the field until evening; and she beat out that which she had gleaned, and it was about an ephah of barley.
• Ruth 2:19
  She took it up, and went into the city. Then her mother-in-law saw what she had gleaned; and she brought out and gave to her that which she had left a...
• Ruth 2:20
  Her mother-in-law said to her, “Where have you gleaned today? Where have you worked? Blessed be he who noticed you.” She told her mother-in-law with w...
• Ruth 2:21
  Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, “May he be blessed by the LORD, who has not abandoned his kindness to the living and to the dead.” Naomi said to he...
• Ruth 2:22
  Ruth the Moabitess said, “Yes, he said to me, ‘You shall stay close to my young men until they have finished all my harvest.’”
• Ruth 2:23
  Naomi said to Ruth her daughter-in-law, “It is good, my daughter, that you go out with his maidens, and that they not harm you in any other field.”
• Ruth 2:24
  So she stayed close to the maidens of Boaz, to glean to the end of barley harvest and of wheat harvest; and she lived with her mother-in-law.