4 And behold, Boaz came from Bethlehem. And he said to the reapers, ^u“The Lord be with you!” And they answered, ^v“The Lord bless you.”

19 And her mother-in-law said to her, “Where did you glean today? And where have you worked? ^eBlessed be the man who ^ftook notice of you.” So she told her mother-in-law with whom she had worked and said, “The man’s name with whom I worked today is Boaz.”

20 And Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, ^g“May he be blessed by the Lord, whose kindness has not forsaken the living or the dead!” Naomi also said to her, “The man is a close relative of ours, one of our ^hredeemers.”

10 And he said, ^p“May you be blessed by the Lord, my daughter. You have made this last ^qkindness greater than the first in that you have not gone after young men, whether poor or rich.