June 1 – Peace Over Plenty

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Welcome to Bible Chat, where we
have devotional conversations

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rooted in scripture and relevant
for today, June 1st.

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Peace over plenty.
Have you ever walked into a room

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that looked perfect on the
outside?

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Nice home, great food, everyone
dressed well.

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But underneath all of that there
was tension, drama, and

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conflict.
Like you could feel it the

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moment you walked through the
door.

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Yes, most of us have been there.
And here’s what’s interesting.

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The Bible has something to say
about exactly that.

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Proverbs chapter 17 verse one
says better is a dry morsel with

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quiet than a house full of
feasting with strife.

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In other words, a simple life
with peace beats a fancy life

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full of fighting every single
time.

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And honestly, that hits
different when you think about

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how much energy we spend chasing
the things that are supposed to

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make us happy.
The clout, the followers, the

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status, the stuff, only to find
that those things don’t actually

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bring the peace we’re looking
for.

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Then there’s Ruth.
Her story begins in loss.

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She had just lost her husband.
Her future felt uncertain, and

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the easy option was to go back
home to her own people, her own

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comfort zone.
But Ruth, chapter one, verse 16

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records some of the most
powerful words of loyalty ever

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spoken.
Do not urge me to leave you or

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to return from following you.
For where you go I will go.

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And where you lodge, I will
lodge.

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Your people shall be my people
and your God, my God.

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She chose faithfulness over
convenience.

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She chose love over the easy
road.

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And that decision, that one act
of loyalty and trust set the

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stage for something incredible.
Fast forward to Ruth chapter 2

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and we meet Boaz.
He notices Ruth working hard in

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the fields and he steps in.
He says to her, do not go to

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glean in another field or leave
this one, but keep close to my

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young women.
He provides for her, He protects

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her, he sees her.
And this wasn’t just a random

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encounter.
This was God working behind the

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scenes, honoring faithfulness
and bringing blessing through

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someone with a heart of kindness
and integrity.

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So here’s what these passages
together are saying to us today.

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Life will constantly offer you
quick wins, shortcuts,

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opportunities that look good on
the surface but are filled with

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strife, compromise, or chaos
underneath.

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And the world will tell you to
grab them.

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Because everyone else is doing
it.

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Because you deserve it right
now.

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Because waiting is for people
who aren’t bold enough.

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But God’s economy works
differently, he says.

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Peace is better than plenty.
He says faithfulness, even in

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hard seasons, lead somewhere
beautiful.

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Ruth didn’t know that Boaz was
around the corner.

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She just kept showing up, kept
being loyal, kept trusting God.

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And God met her there.
That’s a word for someone today.

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Maybe you’re in a dry season.
Maybe things feel hard and

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uncertain.
Maybe the easy path is calling

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your name.
But don’t give up on peace.

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Don’t trade your integrity for
drama.

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Don’t sacrifice your
relationships for shortcuts.

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The God who saw Ruth in that
field sees you too.

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True blessing comes when we
choose peace over drama,

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faithfulness over shortcuts, and
kindness over selfishness.

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That’s not a weakness.
That’s wisdom.

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Let’s pray.
Heavenly Father, thank you for

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showing us that peace and
faithfulness matter more than

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quick wins or flashy
opportunities.

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When life gets loud and the easy
Rd. looks tempting, remind us of

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Ruth’s story.
Help us to choose your path even

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when it’s hard, to be kind like
Boaz and to stay faithful like

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Ruth.
Fill our lives with your peace,

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the kind that doesn’t depend on
our circumstances, and teach us

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to share it with the people
around us in Jesus name, Amen.

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relentless, and too heavy to

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name, your prayers do not have
to fall silent.

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with God in today’s three-year
Bible reading plan, Proverbs.

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Chapter 17 verses one to two
world English Bible.

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Better is a dry morsel with
quietness than a house full of

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feasting with strife.
A servant who deals wisely will

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rule over a son who causes
shame, and shall have a part in

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the inheritance among the
brothers.

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Ruth.
Chapters One to Two World

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English Bible In the days when
the judges judged there was a

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famine in the land, a certain
man of Bethlehem, Judah went to

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live in the country of Moab with
his wife and his two sons.

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The name of the man was a
Limeletch and the name of his

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wife Naomi.
The names of his two sons were

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Malan and Chilean Ephrathites of
Bethlehem, Judah.

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They came into the country of
Moab and lived there a

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limeletch.
Naomi’s husband died and she was

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left with her two sons.
They took for themselves wives

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of the women of Moab.
The name of the one was Orpa,

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and the name of the other was
Ruth.

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They lived there about 10 years.
Malan and Chilian both died, and

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the woman was bereaved of her
two children and of her husband.

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Then she arose with her
daughters in law, that she might

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return from the country of Moab,
for she had heard in the country

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of Moab how Yahweh had visited
His people in giving them bread.

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She went out of the place where
she was, and her two daughters

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in law with her.
They went on the way to return

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to the land of Judah.
Naomi said to her two daughters

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in law, Go return each of you to
her mother’s house.

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May Yahweh deal kindly with you
as you have dealt with the dead

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and with me.
May Yahweh grant you that you

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may find rest each of you in the
House of her husband.

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Then she kissed them and they
lifted up their voices and wept.

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They said to her, no, but we
will return with you to your

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people.
Naomi said go back my daughters,

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Why do you want to go with me?
Do I still have sons in my womb

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that they may be your husband’s?
Go back my daughters, go your

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way, for I am too old to have a
husband.

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If I should say I have hope, if
I should even have a husband

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tonight and should also bear
sons, would you then wait until

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they were grown?
Would you then refrain from

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having husbands?
No, my daughters, for it grieves

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me seriously, for your sakes,
for Yahweh’s hand has gone out

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against me.
They lifted up their voices and

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wept again.
Then Orpa kissed her

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mother-in-law, but Ruth stayed
with her.

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She said, behold, your
sister-in-law has gone back to

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her people and to her God.
Follow your sister-in-law, Ruth

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said.
Don’t urge me to leave you and

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to return from following you.
For where you go I will go, and

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where you stay I will stay.
Your people will be my people

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and your God, my God.
Where you die I will die, and

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there I will be buried.
May Yahweh do so to me and more

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also if anything but death parts
you and me.

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When Naomi saw that she was
determined to go with her, she

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stopped urging her.
So they both went until they

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came to Bethlehem.
When they had come to Bethlehem

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all the city was excited about
them and they asked, is this

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Naomi?
She said to them, don’t call me

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Naomi, call me Mara, for the
Almighty has dealt very bitterly

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with me.
I went out full and Yahweh has

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brought me home again empty.
Why do you call me Naomi?

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Since Yahweh has testified
against me and the Almighty has

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afflicted me?
So Naomi returned and Ruth the

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Moabite us, her daughter-in-law
with her, who returned out of

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the country of Moab.
They came to Bethlehem in the

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beginning of barley harvest.
Naomi had a relative of her

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husband’s, a mighty man of
wealth of the family of a

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limeletch, and his name was
Bose.

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Ruth the Moabite said to Naomi,
Let me now go to the field and

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glean among the ears of grain
after him in whose sight I find

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favor.
She said to her, Go my daughter.

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She went and came and gleaned in
the field after the reapers, and

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she happened to come to the
portion of the field belonging

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to Bose, who was of the family
of a limeletch.

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Behold, Bose came from Bethlehem
and said to the reapers, May

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Yahweh be with you.
They answered him, May Yahweh

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bless you.
Then Bose said to his servant

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who was set over the reapers,
Whose young lady is this?

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The servant who was set over the
reapers answered, It is the

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Moabite lady who came back with
Naomi out of the country of

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Moab.
She said, Please let me glean

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and gather after the reapers
among the sheaves.

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So she came and has continued
even from the morning until now,

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except that she rested a little
in the house.

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Then Bo said to Ruth, Listen, my
daughter, don’t go to glean in

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another field, and don’t go from
here, but stay here close to my

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maidens.
Let your eyes be on the field

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that they reap, and go after
them.

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Haven’t I commanded the young
men not to touch you?

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When you are thirsty?
Go to the vessels and drink from

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that which the young men have
drawn.

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Then she fell on her face and
bowed herself to the ground and

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said to him, Why have I found
favor in your sight, that you

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should take knowledge of me
since I am a foreigner?

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Bose answered her.
I have been told all about what

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you have done for your
mother-in-law since the death of

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your husband and how you have
left your father, your mother

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and the land of your birth and
have come to a people that you

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didn’t know before.
May Yahweh repay your work and a

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full reward be given to you from
Yahweh, the God of Israel, under

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whose wings you have come to
take refuge.

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Then she said, Let me find favor
in your sight, my Lord, because

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you have comforted me and
because you have spoken kindly

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to your servant, though I am not
as one of your servants.

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At meal time Bose said to her,
Come here and eat some bread and

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dip your morsel in the vinegar.
She sat beside the reapers and

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they passed her parched grain.
She ate, was satisfied and left

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some of it.
When she had risen up to glean,

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Bose commanded his young men,
saying, Let her glean even among

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the sheaves, and don’t reproach
her.

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Also pull out some for her from
the bundles and leave it.

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Let her glean and don’t rebuke
her.

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So she gleaned in the field
until evening, and she beat out

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that which she had gleaned, and
it was about an EFA of barley.

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She took it up and went into the
city.

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Then her mother-in-law saw what
she had gleaned, and she brought

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out and gave to her that which
she had left.

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After she had enough, her
mother-in-law said to her, Where

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have you gleaned today?
Where have you worked?

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Blessed be he who noticed you,
She told her mother-in-law with

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whom she had worked.
The man’s name with whom I work

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today is Bose, Naomi said to her
daughter-in-law.

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May he be blessed by Yahweh, who
has not abandoned his kindness

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to the living and to the dead,
Naomi said to her.

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The man is a close relative to
US.

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One of our near kinsmen.
Ruth the Moabite has said yes,

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he said to me, You shall stay
close to my young men until they

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have finished all my harvest.
Naomi said to Ruth, her

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daughter-in-law.
It is good, my daughter, that

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you go out with his maidens, and
that they not meet you in any

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other field.
So she stayed close to the

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maidens of bows to glean to the
end of barley harvest and of

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wheat harvest, and she lived
with her mother-in-law.

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