It occurred in the days when the judges ruled.

He moved because there was a famine in the land of Judah.

He died, leaving Naomi a widow.

They died, leaving behind two daughters-in-law for Naomi.

She heard that Yahweh had given the people of Judah food.

She wanted them to return to their mothers’ houses.

She wanted them to find other husbands.

She believed that Yahweh was against her.

She said, “For I will go to the place where you go, and I will stay in the place where you stay. Your people are my people, and your God is my God.”

She said she would remain with Naomi until they died. She said, “In the place where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. May Yahweh do thus to me, and thus may he add, if death separates between me and between you.”

She returned to Bethlehem.

She asked to be called “Mara” (which means “bitter”), because she believed that Yahweh had dealt bitterly with her.

They arrived at the beginning of the barley harvest.

Boaz was a relative of Naomi’s husband.

She would follow anyone in whose eyes she found favor.

He said, “Yahweh be with you.”

He wanted to know to whom she belonged.

He told Ruth not to leave his field, but to stay and work in his field with his female workers.

She asked Boaz why she had found favor in his sight.

He had heard that Ruth had left her home to follow Naomi.

He said that Ruth had found refuge under Yahweh’s wings.

He allowed Ruth to glean among the bundles.

He commanded the reapers to pull out grain for Ruth from the bundles.

She asked where Ruth had gleaned that day.

She said, “May he be blessed by Yahweh.”

By doing that, Ruth would not come to harm in any other field.

She gleaned with Boaz’s workers and lived with her mother-in-law.

She desired that Ruth have a place of rest, meaning to have a person who would treat her well.

She told her to wash and anoint herself and to put on her cloak.

She was to uncover his feet and to lie down there.

She said she would do everything Naomi told her to do.

He was startled to find that a woman lay at his feet!

She asked Boaz to spread his cloak over her, for he was a kinsman-redeemer.

Boaz blessed Ruth because she had come to Boaz, her kinsman-redeemer, rather than pursuing younger men.

He said that he would do all that she asked.

There was another kinsman-redeemer nearer in relationship than Boaz.

If the nearest kinsman-redeemer was willing to redeem Ruth, then Boaz would let him do that. But if he was not willing, then Boaz would be the kinsman-redeemer.

Boaz did not want people to know that she had been with him overnight at the threshing floor.

He gave her six large measures of barley.

He would resolve it by the end of that same day.

He went to the gate of the city.

He asked ten men who were from the elders of the city.

He told him that Naomi was selling the piece of land that had been owned by Elimelek.

Boaz suggested that the other kinsman could redeem it.

He said he would redeem it.

He told him that he would also have to marry Ruth in order to raise up the name of the dead man over his inheritance.

He said he could not redeem the land.

He said that it would damage his own inheritance.

He took off his sandal and gave it to him in front of witnesses.

They witnessed that Boaz bought all the land that had belonged to Elimelek.

They had witnessed that Boaz acquired Ruth as his wife.

They desired that Yahweh would give him offspring through Ruth, just as Tamar bore a son to Judah.

They said this because of Ruth’s love for Naomi, and because Ruth had given birth to a grandson for Naomi.

Naomi became his nurse or caregiver.

His name was Obed.

Obed was the father of Jesse and the grandfather of David.