Ruth 1:15
1:15 So Naomi
said, “Look, your sister-in-law is returning to her people and to her god.
Follow your sister-in-law back home!”
Ruth 2:3
2:3 So Ruth
went and gathered grain in the fields
behind the harvesters. Now she just happened to end up
in the portion of the field belonging to Boaz, who was from the clan of Elimelech.
Ruth 2:7
2:7 She asked,
‘May I follow the harvesters and gather
grain among the bundles?’
Since she arrived she has been working hard
from this morning until now
– except for
sitting
in the resting hut
a short time.”
Ruth 3:10
3:10 He said, “May you be rewarded
by the
Lord, my dear!
This act of devotion
is greater than what you did before.
For you have not sought to marry
one of the young men, whether rich or poor.
Ruth 1:16
1:16 But Ruth replied,
“Stop urging me to abandon you!
For wherever you go, I will go.
Wherever you live, I will live.
Your people will become my people,
and your God will become my God.
Ruth 2:2
2:2 One day Ruth the Moabite said to Naomi, “Let me go
to the fields so I can gather
grain behind whoever permits me to do so.”
Naomi
replied, “You may go, my daughter.”
Ruth 2:9
2:9 Take note of
the field where the men
are harvesting and follow behind with the female workers.
I will tell the men
to leave you alone.
When you are thirsty, you may go to
the water jars
and drink some of the water
the servants draw.”
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 4:4
4:4 So I am legally informing you:
Acquire it before those sitting here and before the leaders of my people!
If you want to exercise your right to redeem it, then do so.
But if not, then tell me
so I will know.
For you possess the first option to redeem it; I am next in line after you.”
He replied, “I will redeem it.”