⁶ So she went down to the threshing floor, and she did everything that her mother-in-law had commanded her to do.

⁷ After Boaz ate and drank, and his heart was happy, he went to lie down at the edge of the grain pile. Then Ruth came up to him quietly, and she uncovered his legs and lay down there. ⁸ In the middle of the night, the man was startled^[a] and turned over, and there was a woman lying on his legs!^[b]