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Now Naomi had an in-law there in Bethlehem who was a very wealthy man. His name was Boaz.

One day Ruth said to Naomi, “Perhaps I can go out into the fields of some kind man to glean the free grain[a] behind his reapers.”

And Naomi said, “All right, dear daughter. Go ahead.”

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Footnotes

  1. Ruth 2:2 glean the free grain, see Leviticus 19:9 and Deuteronomy 24:19, which established this custom.

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