She fell down at his feet and cried, “Why have I found such favor in your eyes, that you me, a foreigner?” Boaz replied, “I’ve been told all about what you have done for our mother-in-law since the death of your husband—how you left your father and mother and your homeland and came to live with a people you did not know before. May the LORD repay you for what you have done. May you be richly rewarded by the LORD, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to take refuge” (NIV, Ruth 2:11–12)