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20 Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, “(A)May he be blessed of Yahweh who has not forsaken his lovingkindness to the living and to the dead.” Then Naomi said to her, “The man is [a]our relative; he is one of our kinsman redeemers.” 21 Then Ruth the Moabitess said, “[b]Furthermore, he said to me, ‘You should [c]stay close to my young men until they have finished all my harvest.’” 22 Naomi said to Ruth her daughter-in-law, “It is good, my daughter, that you go out with his young women, so that others do not oppress you in another field.”

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Footnotes

  1. Ruth 2:20 Lit near to us
  2. Ruth 2:21 Lit Also that
  3. Ruth 2:21 Lit cling, cf. 1:14; 2:8