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Rich in blessings I left my home, and the Lord has brought me back destitute. So humbled by the Lord’s hand, visited by the Almighty with such calamity, and will you call me Noemi still? (Ruth 1, 21)
Thus it was that Noemi returned from the land of her adoption, with her daughter-in-law Ruth, that was Moabite born. They were just beginning to cut the barley in the fields, when she came back to her home at Bethlehem. (Ruth 1, 22)
And now Ruth, the Moabitess, asked leave of her mother-in-law to go out and glean after the reapers, by some rich man’s favour. Go then, daughter, said she; (Ruth 2, 2)
and it so chanced that the field in which Ruth went to glean after the reapers belonged to no other than Booz, Elimelech’s kinsman. (Ruth 2, 3)
After a while, he himself came out from Bethlehem, and when he had greeted the reapers, The Lord be with you, and they had wished him God’s blessing in return, (Ruth 2, 4)
It is Ruth, said he, the Moabitess, that came here from Moab with Noemi; (Ruth 2, 6)
she asked leave to glean after the reapers, and here she has been, ever since morning, without once going home to rest. (Ruth 2, 7)
Listen, my daughter, Booz said to Ruth; do not look for any other field to glean in; stay here and keep my maidens company, (Ruth 2, 8)
At this, Ruth bowed low, face to ground; How have I deserved any favour of thine? she asked. Why wouldst thou take notice of an alien woman such as I am? (Ruth 2, 10)
By the time she had risen up to go on with her gleaning, Booz had given orders to his servants that they were to put no hindrance in her way, though she were to go reaping in their company; (Ruth 2, 15)
So it was that when she had worked till evening, and took her rod to beat out what she had gathered, she found it was a whole ephi, that is a bushel. (Ruth 2, 17)
Why, said Noemi, where hast thou been gleaning to-day? Where didst thou find so much work to do? Blessed be the man that has so befriended thee! And Ruth told her whose field it was she had worked in, It was a man called Booz, she said. (Ruth 2, 19)
