²⁰ Then Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, ^(A)“Blessed be he of the Lord, who ^(B)has not forsaken His kindness to the living and the dead!” And Naomi said to her, “This man is a relation of ours, ^(C)one of ^[a]our close relatives.”

¹⁰ Then he said, ^(A)“Blessed are you of the Lord, my daughter! For you have shown more kindness at the end than ^(B)at the beginning, in that you did not go after young men, whether poor or rich.