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19 Her mother-in-law asked her, “Where did you glean today? Where did you work? May the one who noticed you be blessed!”

She told her mother-in-law with whom she had worked and she said, “The name of the man for whom I worked is Boaz.”

20 So Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, “May he be blessed by Adonai who has not stopped his kindness to the living or to the dead.” Then Naomi said to her, “This man is closely related to us, one of our kinsmen-redeemers.”[a]

21 Then Ruth the Moabitess said, “He even said to me, ‘Stay close to my workers until they have finished the entire harvest.’”

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  1. Ruth 2:20 Heb. Goel; Matt. 22:24.

19 Her mother-in-law asked her, “Where did you glean today? Where did you work? Blessed be the man who took notice of you!(A)

Then Ruth told her mother-in-law about the one at whose place she had been working. “The name of the man I worked with today is Boaz,” she said.

20 “The Lord bless him!(B)” Naomi said to her daughter-in-law.(C) “He has not stopped showing his kindness(D) to the living and the dead.” She added, “That man is our close relative;(E) he is one of our guardian-redeemers.[a](F)

21 Then Ruth the Moabite(G) said, “He even said to me, ‘Stay with my workers until they finish harvesting all my grain.’”

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  1. Ruth 2:20 The Hebrew word for guardian-redeemer is a legal term for one who has the obligation to redeem a relative in serious difficulty (see Lev. 25:25-55).