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         <div class="p"><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><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="RUT.2.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">&#8220;The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> bless him!&#8221; Naomi said to her daughter-in-law. &#8220;He has not stopped showing his kindness to the living and the dead.&#8221; She added, &#8220;That man is our close relative; he is one of our guardian-redeemers.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:20 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew word for </span><span class="fq">guardian-redeemer </span><span class="ft">is a legal term for one who has the obligation to redeem a relative in serious difficulty (see Lev. 25:25-55).</span></span></span><span class="content">&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="RUT.2.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="RUT.2.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Then Ruth the Moabite said, &#8220;He even said to me, &#8216;Stay with my workers until they finish harvesting all my grain.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="RUT.2.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="RUT.2.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Naomi said to Ruth her daughter-in-law, &#8220;It will be good for you, my daughter, to go with the women who work for him, because in someone else&#8217;s field you might be harmed.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="RUT.2.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="RUT.2.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">So Ruth stayed close to the women of Boaz to glean until the barley and wheat harvests were finished. And she lived with her mother-in-law.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="DEU.7.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> did not set his affection on you and choose you because you were more numerous than other peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="DEU.7.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">But it was because the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> loved you and kept the oath he swore to your ancestors that he brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the land of slavery, from the power of Pharaoh king of Egypt. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="DEU.7.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Know therefore that the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God is God; he is the faithful God, keeping his covenant of love to a thousand generations of those who love him and keep his commandments. </span></span></div>
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         <div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.41.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Blessed are those who have regard for the weak;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.41.1"><span class="content">the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> delivers them in times of trouble.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.41.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.41.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> protects and preserves them&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.41.2"><span class="content">they are counted among the blessed in the land&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.41.2"><span class="content">he does not give them over to the desire of their foes.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.41.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.41.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> sustains them on their sickbed</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.41.3"><span class="content">and restores them from their bed of illness.</span></span></div>
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