Today is the sixth day of May. Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible.

I'm Brian. It is great to be here.

It a privilege. It is an honor. I am grateful to be here with you today as we gather again around the global campfire.

To take the next step forward together.

And that leads us back out into the book of Ruth.

We began that yesterday and got the lay of the land about Naomi and Ruth and Naomi's plights,

and they have traveled back from Moab to Israel,

and we'll pick up the story and conclude the book of Ruth today.

Ruth chapters 2, 3, and four.

Naomi had a relative named Boaz, a rich and influential man who belonged to the family of her husband, Alimelech.

One day Ruth said to Naomi,

Let me go to the fields to gather the grain that the harvest workers leave.

I am sure to find someone who will let me work with him.

Naomi answered, go ahead, daughter.

So Ruth went out to the fields and walked behind the workers picking up the heads of grain

which they left.

It so happened that she was in a field that belonged to Boaz.

Sometime later, Boaz himself arrived from Bethlehem and greeted the workers.

"'The Lord be with you,' he said.

"'The Lord bless you,' they answered.

"'Bohaz asked the man in charge,

"'Who is that young woman?'

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