4. Behold, Boaz came from Bethlehem, and said to the reapers, "May the LORD be with you."They answered him, "May the LORD bless you."

5. Then Boaz said to his servant who was set over the reapers, "Whose young lady is this?"

6. 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.

7. 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 that she rested a little in the house."

8. 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.

9. 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 vessels, and drink from that which the young men have drawn."

10. 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 me, since I am a foreigner?"

11. Boaz answered her, "I have been fully told about all that you have done to your mother-in-law since the death of your husband, and how you have left your father and your mother, and the land of your birth, and have come to a people that you didn't know before.

12. 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."

13. 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 am not as one of your servants."

14. 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 parched grain, and she ate, and was satisfied, and left some of it.

15. 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.

16. Also pull out some for her from the bundles, and leave it. Let her glean, and don't rebuke her."

17. 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.

He said, "Bring the mantle that is on you, and hold it." She held it; and he measured six measures of barley, and laid it on her; then he went into the city.