13. Then she said, “Let me find favor in your sight, my lord, because you have comforted me, and because you have spoken kindly to your servant, though I am not as one of your servants.”
14. At meal time Boaz said to her, “Come here, and eat some bread, and dip your morsel in the vinegar.”She sat beside the reapers, and they passed her parched grain, and she ate, and was satisfied, and left some of it.
15. When she had risen up to glean, Boaz commanded his young men, saying, “Let her glean even among the sheaves, and don’t reproach her.
16. Also pull out some for her from the bundles, and leave it. Let her glean, and don’t rebuke her.”
17. So she gleaned in the field until evening; and she beat out that which she had gleaned, and it was about an efah of barley.