Ruth 3:12-18 ▼

12 Now it is true that I am a redeeming kinsman; however there is a redeemer closer than I am.

13 Stay this night, and it shall be in the morning, that if he will perform for you the part of a redeemer, well; let him do the redeemer's part. But if he will not do the part of a redeemer for you, then I will do the part of a redeemer for you, as the LORD lives. Lie down until the morning.|

14 She lay at his feet until the morning. She rose up before one could discern another. For he said, |Let it not be known that the woman came to the threshing floor.|

15 He said, |Bring the cloak that is on you, and hold it.| She held it; and he measured six measures of barley, and laid it on her; and he went into the city.

16 When she came to her mother-in-law, she said, |How did it go, my daughter?| She told her all that the man had done to her.

17 She said, |He gave me these six measures of barley; for he said to me, 'Do not go empty-handed to your mother-in-law.'|

18 Then she said, |Wait, my daughter, until you know how the matter will fall; for the man will not rest, until he has finished the thing this day.|