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would you therefore wait until they were grown? Would you therefore refrain from marrying? No, my daughters; for it is more bitter for me than for you, for the hand of Yahweh has gone forth against me."

But Ruth said, "Do not press me to forsake you in turning back from following you; for where you go, I will go, and where you lodge, I will lodge. Your people shall be my people, and your God, my God.

She said to them, "Do not call me Naomi; call me Mara, for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me.

And she said, ‘Please let me glean and gather after the reapers among the sheaves.' Thus she came and has remained from the morning until now; she has been sitting in the house for a little while."

Boaz replied to her, "All that you have done for your mother-in-law after the death of your husband has been fully told to me, and how you forsook your father and your mother and the land of your birth, and came to a people that you did not previously know.

Then she said, "May I find favor in your eyes, my lord, for you have comforted me and indeed have spoken to the heart of your servant-woman, though I am not like one of your servant-women."

Also you shall purposely pull out for her some grain from the bundles and leave it that she may glean, and do not rebuke her."

Then Naomi her mother-in-law said to her, "My daughter, shall I not seek a state of rest for you, that it may be well with you?

And he said, "Who are you?" And she answered, "I am Ruth your maidservant. So spread your wing over your maidservant, for you are a kinsman redeemer."

So now, my daughter, do not fear. All that you say, I will do for you; for all my people within the gates of the city know that you are a woman of excellence.

Then she came to her mother-in-law, and she said, "How did it go, my daughter?" And she told her all that the man had done for her.

She said, "These six measures of barley he gave to me, for he said, ‘Do not go to your mother-in-law empty.'"

Then she said, "Sit, then, my daughter, until you know how the matter falls into place; for the man will not remain quiet until he has finished the matter today."

So I thought to uncover this matter in your hearing, saying, ‘Acquire it before those who are sitting here and before the elders of my people. If you will redeem it, redeem it; but if no one redeems it, tell me that I may know; for there is no one but you to redeem it, and I am after you.'" And he said, "I will redeem it."

So the kinsman redeemer said, "I cannot redeem it for myself, lest I ruin my own inheritance. You redeem my right of redemption for yourself, for I cannot redeem it."

So the kinsman redeemer said to Boaz, "Acquire this for yourself." And he removed his sandal.

May he also be to you a restorer of your soul and a sustainer of your old age; for your daughter-in-law, who loves you and is better to you than seven sons, has given birth to him."

but to Hannah he would give a double portion, for he loved Hannah, but Yahweh had closed her womb.

As for Hannah, she was speaking in her heart; only her lips were moving, but her voice was not heard. So Eli thought she was drunk.

Do not consider your maidservant as a vile woman, for I have spoken until now out of my great complaint and provocation."