When you reap the harvest of your land, you are not to reap all the way to the edge of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest. Leave them for the poor and the resident foreigner; I am the Lord your God.’
Ruth the Moabitess asked Naomi, ‘Will you let me go into the fields and gather fallen corn behind someone with whom I find favour? ’ Naomi answered her, ‘Go ahead, my daughter.’
‘Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When you enter the land I am giving you and reap its harvest, you are to bring the first sheaf of your harvest to the priest.
Then Boaz said to Ruth, ‘Listen, my daughter. Don’t go and gather corn in another field, and don’t leave this one, but stay here close to my female servants.