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Boaz Will Redeem Ruth

Then Naomi her mother-in-law said to Ruth, “My daughter, shall I not look for [a]security and a home for you, so that it may be well with you? Now Boaz, with whose maids you were [working], is he not our relative? See now, he is winnowing barley at the threshing floor tonight. So wash and anoint yourself [with olive oil], then put on your [[b]best] clothes, and go down to the threshing floor; [c]but stay out of the man’s sight until he has finished eating and drinking.

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Footnotes

  1. Ruth 3:1 Lit rest.
  2. Ruth 3:3 One rabbi said that these were special garments for the Sabbath.
  3. Ruth 3:3 Lit do not reveal yourself to the man.

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