John 3:30Open English Bible (Commonwealth)

Ruth 1:11

But Naomi said, ‘Go back, my daughters. Why should you go with me? Can I still bear sons who might become your husbands?

Ruth 2:4

When Boaz came from Bethlehem and said to the reapers, ‘The Lord be with you,’ they answered him, ‘May the Lord bless you.’

Ruth 2:19

‘Where did you glean today, and where did you work?’ asked her mother-in-law. ‘A blessing on him who took notice of you!’ So she told her mother-in-law where she had worked. ‘The name of the man with whom I worked today,’ she said, ‘is Boaz.’

Ruth 2:20

Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, ‘May the blessing of the Lord rest on this man who has not ceased to show his loving-kindness to the living and to the dead. The man,’ she added, ‘is a near relation of ours.’

Ruth 2:21

‘He told me,’ Ruth said, ‘that I must keep near his young men until they have completed all his harvest.’