20 And Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, (A)“May he be blessed by the Lord, whose kindness has not forsaken (B)the living or the dead!” Naomi also said to her, “The man is a close relative of ours, one of (C)our redeemers.” 21 And Ruth the Moabite said, “Besides, he said to me, ‘You shall keep close by my young men until they have finished all my harvest.’” 22 And Naomi said to Ruth, her daughter-in-law, “It is good, my daughter, that you go out with his young women, lest in another field you be assaulted.”

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