1 Now Naomi had ^ta relative of her husband’s, a worthy man of the clan of Elimelech, whose name was ^uBoaz. 2 And Ruth the Moabite said to Naomi, “Let me go to the field and ^vglean among the ears of grain after him ^win whose sight I shall find favor.” And she said to her, “Go, my daughter.” 3 So she set out and went and gleaned in the field after the reapers, and she happened to come to the part of the field belonging to Boaz, who was of the clan of Elimelech.