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Let Your Light Shine by Vance K. Jackson

Noah: A Covenant With Humanity

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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="RUT.2.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">At this, she bowed down with her face to the ground. She asked him, &#8220;Why have I found such favor in your eyes that you notice me&#8212;a foreigner?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="RUT.2.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="RUT.2.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Boaz replied, &#8220;I&#8217;ve been told all about what you have done for your mother-in-law since the death of your husband&#8212;how you left your father and mother and your homeland and came to live with a people you did not know before. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="RUT.2.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">May the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> repay you for what you have done. May you be richly rewarded by the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to take refuge.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="RUT.2.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="RUT.2.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">&#8220;May I continue to find favor in your eyes, my lord,&#8221; she said. &#8220;You have put me at ease by speaking kindly to your servant&#8212;though I do not have the standing of one of your servants.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="RUT.2.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="RUT.2.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">At mealtime Boaz said to her, &#8220;Come over here. Have some bread and dip it in the wine vinegar.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="RUT.2.14"><span class="content">When she sat down with the harvesters, he offered her some roasted grain. She ate all she wanted and had some left over. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="RUT.2.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">As she got up to glean, Boaz gave orders to his men, &#8220;Let her gather among the sheaves and don&#8217;t reprimand her. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="RUT.2.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Even pull out some stalks for her from the bundles and leave them for her to pick up, and don&#8217;t rebuke her.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="RUT.2.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="RUT.2.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">So Ruth gleaned in the field until evening. Then she threshed the barley she had gathered, and it amounted to about an ephah.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:17 </span><span class="ft">That is, probably about 30 pounds or about 13 kilograms</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="RUT.2.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">She carried it back to town, and her mother-in-law saw how much she had gathered. Ruth also brought out and gave her what she had left over after she had eaten enough.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="RUT.2.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="RUT.2.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Her mother-in-law asked her, &#8220;Where did you glean today? Where did you work? Blessed be the man who took notice of you!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="RUT.2.19"><span class="content">Then Ruth told her mother-in-law about the one at whose place she had been working. &#8220;The name of the man I worked with today is Boaz,&#8221; she said.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="RUT.2.19"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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