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13 Stay here tonight, and in the morning, if he wants to redeem you, that’s good.(A) Let him redeem you. But if he doesn’t want to redeem you, as the Lord lives,(B) I will. Now lie down until morning.’

14 So she lay down at his feet until morning but got up while it was still dark.[a] Then Boaz said, ‘Don’t let it be known that a[b] woman came to the threshing-floor.’ 15 And he told Ruth, ‘Bring the shawl you’re wearing and hold it out.’ When she held it out, he shovelled six measures of barley into her shawl, and she[c] went into the town.

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Footnotes

  1. 3:14 Lit up before a man could recognise his companion
  2. 3:14 LXX; MT reads the
  3. 3:15 Some Hb mss, Aramaic, Syr, Vg; other Hb mss read he