⁸ Then Boaz said to Ruth, “·Listen [^LHave you not heard…?], my daughter. Don’t go to ·gather grain for yourself [glean] in another field. Don’t even leave this field at all, but ·continue following closely behind [stay close to; cling to] my ·women workers [servant girls; young women]. ⁹ Watch to see into which fields ·they [the men reaping; ^Cthe Hebrew pronoun is masculine] go to ·cut grain [reap] and follow ·them [the women gathering; ^Cthe Hebrew pronoun is feminine]. I ·have warned [or will warn] the young men not to ·bother [harass; touch] you. When you are thirsty, you may go and drink from the water jugs that the young men have ·filled [^Ldrawn (from the well)].”

¹⁰ Then Ruth bowed low with her face to the ground and said to him, “I am ·not an Israelite [^La foreigner]. Why have ·you been so kind to notice me [^LI found favor/grace in your eyes]?”