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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.

16 She went to her mother-in-law, Naomi, who asked her, ‘What happened,[d] my daughter? ’

Then Ruth told her everything the man had done for her.

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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
  4. 3:16 Lit ‘Who are you