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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1One day Ruth’s mother-in-law Naomi said to her, “My daughter, should I not seek a resting place for you, that it may be well with you? |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Now is not Boaz, with whose servant girls you have been working, a relative of ours? In fact, tonight he is winnowing barley on the threshing floor. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Therefore wash yourself, put on perfume, and wear your best clothes. Go down to the threshing floor, but do not let the man know you are there until he has finished eating and drinking. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4When he lies down, note the place where he lies. Then go in and uncover his feet, and lie down, and he will explain to you what you should do.” |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5“I will do everything you say,” Ruth answered. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6So she went down to the threshing floor and did everything her mother-in-law had instructed her to do. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7After Boaz had finished eating and drinking and was in good spirits, he went to lie down at the end of the heap of grain. Then Ruth went in secretly, uncovered his feet, and lay down. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8At midnight, Boaz was startled, turned over, and there lying at his feet was a woman! |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9“Who are you?” he asked. “I am your servant Ruth,” she replied. “Spread the corner of your garment over me, for you are a kinsman-redeemer.” |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Then Boaz said, “May the LORD bless you, my daughter. You have shown more kindness now than before, because you have not run after the younger men, whether rich or poor. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11And now do not be afraid, my daughter. I will do for you whatever you request, since all my fellow townspeople know that you are a woman of noble character. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Yes, it is true that I am a kinsman-redeemer, but there is a redeemer nearer than I. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Stay here tonight, and in the morning, if he wants to redeem you, good. Let him redeem you. But if he does not want to redeem you, as surely as the LORD lives, I will. Now lie here until morning.” |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14So she lay down at his feet until morning, but she got up before anyone else could recognize her. Then Boaz said, “Do not let it be known that a woman came to the threshing floor.” |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15And he told her, “Bring the shawl you are wearing and hold it out.” When she did so, he shoveled six measures of barley into her shawl. Then he went into the city. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16When Ruth returned to her mother-in-law, Naomi asked her, “How did it go, my daughter?” Then Ruth told her all that Boaz had done for her. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17And she said, “He gave me these six measures of barley, for he said, ‘Do not go back to your mother-in-law empty-handed.’ ” |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18“Wait, my daughter,” said Naomi, “until you find out how things go, for he will not rest unless he has resolved the matter today.” |
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