At mealtime Boaz said to Ruth, "Come and have a piece of bread, and dip it in the sauce." So she sat with the workers, and Boaz passed some roasted grain to her. She ate until she was satisfied, and she still had some food left over.

When they were all full, he said to his disciples, "Gather the pieces left over; let us not waste a bit."

So they gathered them all and filled twelve baskets with the pieces left over from the five barley loaves which the people had eaten.

But if a widow has children or grandchildren, they should learn first to carry out their religious duties toward their own family and in this way repay their parents and grandparents, because that is what pleases God.