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And they said, "There must be a remnant for Benjamin, so that a tribe will not be blotted out from Israel.

So the Israelites dispersed from there at that time according to tribe and family; and they went out from there, each one to their own territory.

So she set out from the place where she was and her two daughters-in-law with her, and they went on the way to return to the land of Judah.

Where you die I will die, and there I will be buried. So may Yahweh do to me, and even more, unless death separates you and me!"

So the two of them went until they came to Bethlehem. And when they came to Bethlehem, all of the town was stirred because of them. And they said, "Is this Naomi?"

So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabite her daughter-in-law with her, returning from the countryside of Moab. And they came to Bethlehem at the beginning of the harvest of barley.

So she went and came and gleaned in the field behind the reapers. And she happened by chance upon the tract of field belonging to Boaz, who was from the clan of Elimelech.

And she said, ‘Please let me glean and let me gather among the sheaves behind the reapers.' So she came and remained from the morning up to now. She is sitting for a little while in the house."

And Boaz said to her at mealtime, "Come here and eat from the bread and dip your morsel in the wine vinegar." So she sat beside the gleaners, and he offered to her roasted grain. And she ate and was satisfied, and she had some left over.

And also pull out for her from your bundles and leave it so that she may glean—and do not rebuke her."

So she gleaned in the field until the evening and she beat out what she had gleaned, and it was about an ephah of barley.

And Naomi said to Ruth her daughter-in-law, "It is good, my daughter, that you go out with his maidservants so that you will not be bothered in another field."

So she stayed close with the maidservants of Boaz to glean until the end of the barley harvest and wheat harvest. And she lived with her mother-in-law.

So then, is not Boaz our kinsman whose maidservants you were with? Look, he is winnowing the barley at the threshing floor tonight.

And so then my daughter, do not be afraid. All that you ask I will do for you, for the entire assembly of my people knows that you are a worthy woman.

So she lay at his feet until morning and got up before anyone could recognize each other. And he said, "It must not be known that you came to the threshing floor."

And I thought I would tell you and say, ‘Buy it in the presence of those sitting and before the elders of my people,' if you want to redeem it, redeem it. But if you do not want to redeem, tell me so that I may know, for there is no one except you to redeem it, and I am after you." And he said, "I want to redeem it."

So the redeemer said to Boaz, "Acquire it for yourself," and he removed his sandal.

And also Ruth the Moabite, the wife of Mahlon, I have acquired as a wife, to raise up the name of the dead over his inheritance, so that the name of the dead may not be cut off from his relatives and from the gate of his birth place. You are witnesses today."

So Boaz took Ruth and she became his wife. And he went in to her, and Yahweh enabled her to conceive, and she bore a son.