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[a] went into the town.

16 She went to her mother-in-law, Naomi, who asked her, “What happened,[b] my daughter?”

Then Ruth told her everything the man had done for her. 17 She said, “He gave me these six measures of barley, because he said,[c] ‘Don’t go back to your mother-in-law empty-handed.’”

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Footnotes

  1. 3:15 Some Hb mss, Aramaic, Syr, Vg; other Hb mss read he
  2. 3:16 Lit “Who are you
  3. 3:17 Alt Hb tradition, LXX, Syr, Tg read said to me

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