So Naomi said to her daughter-in-law Ruth, ‘My daughter, it is good for you to work with his female servants, so that nothing will happen to you in another field.’
Don’t abandon your friend or your father’s friend, and don’t go to your brother’s house in your time of calamity; better a neighbour nearby than a brother far away.
Ruth stayed close to Boaz’s female servants and gathered corn until the barley and the wheat harvests were finished. And she lived with her mother-in-law.