Elimelech had a relative, a powerful and extremely wealthy man named Boaz. And Ruth the Moabite said unto her mother-in-law, “If thou thinkest it’s all right, I’ll go out into the fields and glean the ears of grain that the reapers have left behind, wherever I find a man who is kind unto me.” Naomi replied, “Go, my daughter.” So she went and gleaned behind the reapers. Now it happened that the field where she was belonged to Boaz, a relative of Elimelech. Boaz said to Ruth, “Hearken, my daughter; do not go to another field to glean, and do not leave this place; but join my young women, and follow wherever they are reaping, for I have commanded my servants not to trouble thou in any way; and when thou art thirsty, go unto the water jars and drink the water that my servants drink.” Ruth bowed with her face unto the ground in reverence and said to Boaz, “Wherefore have I found favor in thy eyes, that thou should take notice of me—a foreign woman?” He replied, “I have been told all that thou hast done for thy mother-in-law since thy husband’s death—how thou left thy parents and the land of thy birth to come to a people thou didst not know before.” So Boaz took Ruth and married her; and after she was married, the Lord granted her the grace to conceive and bear a son. And the women said to Naomi: “Blessed be the Lord, who has not allowed thy family to be without an heir, and who has ensured that his name will be preserved in Israel; so that thou may have a child to comfort thy soul and to provide for thee in thy old age, for he was born unto thee through thy daughter-in-law, who loves thou and is worth far more unto thee than if thou hadst seven sons.” Naomi took the child and laid him in her bosom; she cared for him and served as his nurse. Her female neighbors rejoiced with her, saying, “A son has been born to Naomi,” and they named him Obed. He was the father of Jesse, the father of David.