Ruth 1:14
1:14 Again they wept loudly. Then Orpah kissed her mother-in-law goodbye, but Ruth clung tightly to her.
Ruth 3:6
Ruth Visits Boaz
3:6 So she went down to the threshing floor and did everything her mother-in-law had instructed her to do.
Ruth 2:11
2:11 Boaz replied to her,
“I have been given a full report of
all that you have done for your mother-in-law following the death of your husband – how you left
your father and your mother, as well as your homeland, and came to live among people you did not know previously.
Ruth 3:16
3:16 and she returned to her mother-in-law.
Ruth Returns to Naomi
When Ruth returned to her mother-in-law, Naomi asked, “How did things turn out for you, my daughter?” Ruth told her about all the man had done for her.
Ruth 3:1
Naomi Instructs Ruth
3:1 At that time, Naomi, her mother-in-law, said to her, “My daughter, I must find a home for you so you will be secure.
Ruth 3:17
3:17 She said, “He gave me these sixty pounds of barley, for he said to me,
‘Do not go to your mother-in-law empty-handed.’”
Ruth 2:19
2:19 Her mother-in-law asked her,
“Where did you gather grain today? Where did you work? May the one who took notice of you be rewarded!”
So Ruth
told her mother-in-law with whom she had worked. She said, “The name of the man with whom I worked today is Boaz.”
Ruth 2:18
Ruth Returns to Naomi
2:18 She carried it back to town, and her mother-in-law saw how much grain she had gathered. Then Ruth gave her the roasted grain she had saved from mealtime.
Ruth 2:23
2:23 So Ruth
worked beside
Boaz’s female servants, gathering grain until the end of the barley harvest as well as the wheat harvest.
After that she stayed home with her mother-in-law.
Ruth 1:8
1:8 Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, “Listen to me! Each of you should return to your mother’s home!
May the
Lord show
you
the same kind of devotion that you have shown to your deceased husbands
and to me!