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ability to give you a promotion. Take strength in the fact that there is someone who will move you from the level where you are to a level of increase. Everyone starts in a gleaning corner, but with Boaz on your side, you are going to come out of the corner of 30-fold and go into a higher level of blessing. T HE S IXTY -F OLD L EVEL The next day Ruth arose to perform her daily routine. On this day, however, a special, unexpected blessing awaited her. And when she rose up to glean, Boaz commanded his young men, saying, "let her glean even among the sheaves, and do not reproach her. also let grain from the bundles fall purposely for her; leave it that she may glean, and do not rebuke her" (Ruth 2:15, 16). Boaz was breaking tradition. Strangers were allowed to glean only in a small corner after the main harvest was completed. Every stranger and widow in Bethlehem was permitted by the Law of Moses to glean a corner. But Boaz got Ruth out of the corner, and said, "Do not reproach her... do not rebuke her." Had the reapers seen Ruth among the sheaves, they would have said, "What are you doing here? This is off limits to you, a stranger and a Moabite." They would have reminded her that her past and her that her place of birth hindered her progress. But Boaz instructed the men to leave her alone. Don't rebuke her, he said, don't bring up the fact she is a stranger among us. Make her comfortable. Let "handfuls on