I must seek a home for you that will please you I want to make sure you are well Boaz is a relative of ours This evening he will be winnowing barley at the threshing floor My daughter, I want you to be well

Tonight, Boaz will be winnowing barley on the threshing floor Bathe and anoint yourself Put on your best attire Go down to the threshing floor Do not make yourself known to the man before he has finished eating and drinking

Uncover the place at his feet Lie down there He will tell you what to do Prepare something for him to eat Don’t lie down there

Boaz had eaten and drunk He lay down beside the grain heap to sleep At midnight, the man was startled. He leaned forward and found a woman lying at his feet He asked, "Who are you?"

“She answered: "I am Ruth" She replied: "I am your servant" Spread the corner of your garment over your servant You are my next of kin She responded: "I am Naomi"

May the LORD bless you You have been even more loyal Than before in not going after the young men Whether poor or rich “I am not related to you”

Be assured, daughter I will do for you whatever you say All my townspeople know you for a worthy woman Though indeed I am closely related to you You have another relative still closer

Stay as you are for tonight If he wishes to claim you, good! let him do so If he does not wish to claim you, As the LORD lives Lie there until morning

She lay at his feet until morning But rose before men could recognize one another Let it not be known that this woman came to the threshing floor Boaz said to her:Take off your cloak and hold it out She held it out, and he filled it with six measures of barley and loaded it onto her

How have you fared, my daughter She told her all the man had done for her He gave me these six measures of barley He did not wish me to come back to my mother-in-law emptyhanded Wait here, my daughter, until you learn what happens

Boaz went and took a seat at the gate He saw the closer relative of whom he had spoken come along He called to him by name, "Come and sit beside me He did so Boaz picked out ten of the elders of the city and asked them to sit nearby

Noomi wants to sell the piece of land that belonged to our relative Elimelech Naomi, who has come back from the Moabite plateau But if you don’t want to redeem it, let me know so that I am aware Bidding you before those here present, including the elders of my people "If you want to redeem, then redeem it"

If you acquire the field from the hand, you also acquire the Moabite woman Ruth The wife of the deceased, in order to perpetuate the name of the dead on his inheritance The redeemer said: Then I cannot redeem it for myself, otherwise I would harm my own inheritance Take over my right of redemption I cannot redeem

One party would take off his sandal and give it to the other You had to go home This was the form of attestation in Israel You drink tea You ate honey

You are witnesses today that I have acquired all the property of Elimelech, as well as Kilion’s and Mahlon’s, from the hand of Naomi I have also acquired Ruth, the Moabite woman, who was the wife of Mahlon To raise up the name of the deceased on his inheritance, so that his name does not perish among his relatives and at the gate of his town You are witnesses today I'm going home