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20 “Praise the Lord for a man like that! God has continued his kindness to us as well as to your dead husband!” Naomi cried excitedly. “Why, that man is one of our closest relatives!”[a]

21 “Well,” Ruth told her, “he said to come back and stay close behind his reapers until the entire field is harvested.”

22 “This is wonderful!” Naomi exclaimed. “Do as he has said. Stay with his girls right through the whole harvest; you will be safer there than in any other field!”

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Footnotes

  1. Ruth 2:20 one of our closest relatives, literally, “a near relative, one of our redeemers.”

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