<p class="bodytext">Again they wept loudly.<n id="1" /> Then Orpah kissed her mother-in-law goodbye,<n id="2" /> but Ruth<n id="3" /> clung tightly to her.<n id="4" />

Her mother-in-law asked her,<n id="1" /> &#8220;Where did you gather grain today? Where did you work? May the one who took notice of you be rewarded!&#8221;<n id="2" /> So Ruth<n id="3" /> told her mother-in-law with whom she had worked. She said, &#8220;The name of the man with whom I worked today is Boaz.&#8221;