Luke 23:3Open English Bible (Commonwealth)

Ruth 2:2

Ruth the Moabite said to Naomi, ‘Let me now go into the fields and gather leftover grain behind anyone who will allow me.’ ‘Go, my daughter,’ she replied.

Ruth 2:5

‘Whose girl is this?’ Boaz asked his servant who had charge of the reapers.

Ruth 2:6

The servant who had charge of the reapers replied, ‘It is the Moabite girl who came back with Naomi from the territory of Moab.

Ruth 2:7

She asked to be allowed to glean and gather sheaves after the reapers. So she came and has continued to work until now and she has not rested a moment in the field.’

Ruth 2:11

Boaz replied, ‘I have heard what you have done for your mother-in-law since the death of your husband, and how you left your father and mother and your native land to come to a people that you did not know before.