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Boaz: 15 Now bring me the outer garment you are wearing. Hold it out, and hold on tightly.

She did so, and Boaz filled her garment with six measures of barley grain. He handed it to her; then he[a] left her and went into the town to conduct his business.

16 When Ruth returned to Naomi’s home, her mother-in-law asked her daughter what happened. Ruth related all that Boaz had said and done.

Ruth: 17 He even gave me these six measures of barley grain saying to me, “You can’t go back to your mother-in-law empty-handed.”

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Footnotes

  1. 3:15 Other ancient manuscripts read “she.”

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