Ruth 2:11-13

Living Bible

^10-11 She thanked him warmly. “How can you be so kind to me?” she asked. “You must know I am only a foreigner.”

“Yes, I know,” Boaz replied, “and I also know about all the love and kindness you have shown your mother-in-law since the death of your husband, and how you left your father and mother in your own land and have come here to live among strangers. ¹² May the Lord God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to take refuge, bless you for it.”

¹³ “Oh, thank you, sir,” she replied. “You are so good to me, and I’m not even one of your workers!”