And Naomi said to Ruth her daughter in law, It is good, my daughter, that you go out with his maidens, that they do not meet you in any other field.
Your own friend, and your father’s friend, do not forsake; neither go into your brother’s house in the day of your calamity: for better is a neighbor that is near than a brother far off.
If you know not, O you fairest among women, go on your way in the footsteps of the flock, and feed your young goats beside the shepherds’ tents.
And as Peter was beneath in the palace, there came one of the maids of the high priest:
And Ruth the Moabitess said, He said to me also, You shall keep close by my young men, until they have ended all my harvest.
So she kept close by the maidens of Boaz to glean until the end of barley harvest and of wheat harvest; and dwelt with her mother in law.