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20 Then Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, “May he be blessed by the Lord, whose faithfulness[a] has not forsaken[b] the living and the dead!”

Naomi also said to her, “This man is related to us. He is even one of our family’s redeemers.”[c]

21 Then Ruth the Moabite said, “He even said to me, ‘Stick close to my workers until they have finished all of the harvest on the land that belongs to me.’”

22 Then Naomi said to Ruth her daughter-in-law, “It is good, my daughter, that you can go out with his young women, so that you will not be molested by men in some other field.”

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Footnotes

  1. Ruth 2:20 Or mercy
  2. Ruth 2:20 Or who has not withdrawn his kindness to
  3. Ruth 2:20 The redeemer (Hebrew goel) was a kind of guardian who gave legal and financial support to less-well-off relatives. The goel also served as the avenger of blood.