At mealtime Boaz called to her “Come over her, and help yourself to some food. You can dip your bread in the sour wine.” So she sat with his harvesters and Boaz gave her some roasted grain to eat. She ate all she wanted and still had some left over. (v. 14, NLT)
So Ruth gathered barley there all day, and when she beat out the grain that evening, if filled the entire basket. She carried it back into town and showed it to her mother-in-law. Ruth also gave her the roasted grain that was left over from her meal.
“Where did you gather all this grain today?” Naomi asked. “Where did you work? May the Lord bless the one who help you!”
So Ruth told her mother-in-law about the man in whose field she had worked. She said, “The man I worked with today is named Boaz.”
May the Lord bless him!” Naomi told her daughter-in-law. “He is showing is kindness to us as well as your dead husband. THat man is one of our closest relative, on of our family redeemers.”
Then Ruth sai “What’s more, Boaz even told me to come back and stay with his harvesters until the entire harvest is completed.” (vv. 17-21, NLT)