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 shoveled 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, “How did it go,[d] my daughter?”

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

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Footnotes

  1. Ruth 3:14 Lit up before a man could recognize his companion
  2. Ruth 3:14 LXX; MT reads the
  3. Ruth 3:15 Some Hb mss, Aram, Syr, Vg; other Hb mss read he
  4. Ruth 3:16 Lit Who are you

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