2 Soon after, Ruth the Moabite said to Naomi, "Please let me go to the fields and pick up grain that’s been left behind—if I can find someone who’ll give me permission."
"Yes, go ahead, my daughter," Naomi replied.
3 So she went and picked up grain the reapers had left behind. She happened to be working in a field that belonged to Boaz, a relative of Elimelech.
10 She bowed down with her face to the ground. "Why are you being so kind to me or even notice me, seeing I’m a foreigner?" she asked him.
11 "I’ve heard about all you’ve done for your mother-in-law since your husband died," Boaz replied. "And also how you left your father and mother, and the land of your birth, to come and live among people you didn’t know. 12 May the Lord fully reward you for all you’ve done—the Lord, the God of Israel, to whom you’ve come for protection."2:12. Literally, "under whose wings you have sought refuge."