Then Boaz said to Ruth, “Listen, my daughter.[a] Don’t go and gather grain in another field, and don’t leave this one, but stay here close to my female servants. See which field they are harvesting, and follow them. Haven’t I ordered the young men not to touch you?[b] When you are thirsty, go and drink from the jars the young men have filled.”

10 She bowed with her face to the ground(A) and said to him, “Why are you so kind to notice me, although I am a foreigner?”

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Footnotes

  1. Ruth 2:8 Lit Haven’t you heard, my daughter?
  2. Ruth 2:9 Either sexual or physical harassment

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