Head Reaper: Truly we have a wonderful harvest this year!
First Reaper: Yea, we will have food enough for ourselves and for all the poor in our city of Bethlehem.
Head Reaper: It is the great God that hath given us this bounty.
[All sing harvest song as they reap. While they are singing Ruth comes in and begins to pick up the grain.]
Second Reaper [looking toward the entrance to the field]: The master is coming, the great Boaz!
[All reapers look in that direction as they stand, resting their sickles on the ground. Boaz enters.]
Boaz: The Lord be with you!
Reapers: The Lord bless thee!
[All go to work again, singing as before. Boaz walks among them; he sees Ruth and watches her.]