People in Bethlehem still talk about me. They lower their voices and say, "Look, there is Naomi. She went away full, and the Lord has brought her back empty."
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I didn't tell them about Ruth. Not yet. Let them wonder about the young Moabite woman following me like a shadow. Let them assume she was a servant, a hanger-on, a charity case. People in Bethlehem still talk about me
Then Mahlon got sick. Then Chilion. Then both of them were gone. I didn't tell them about Ruth
They would learn that when Boaz—that good, honorable man—noticed her, she didn't flirt or scheme. She just kept working. And when I told her to go to him at the threshing floor, she trusted me even though my plans had failed so many times before.