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Ruth Meets Boaz

There was a rich man named Boaz living in Bethlehem. Boaz was one of Naomi’s close relatives[a] from Elimelech’s family.

One day Ruth, the Moabite, said to Naomi, “I think I will go to the fields. Maybe I can find someone who will be kind to me and let me gather the grain they leave in their field.”

Naomi said, “Fine, daughter, go ahead.”

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Footnotes

  1. Ruth 2:1 close relatives If a man died without children, one of his close relatives would take the dead man’s wife so that she could have children. He would care for this family, but this family and their property would not belong to him. They would all be in the dead man’s name.

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