Ruth and Boaz at the threshing-floor

One day Ruth’s mother-in-law Naomi said to her, ‘My daughter, I must find a home[a] for you, where you will be well provided for. Now Boaz, with whose women you have worked, is a relative of ours. Tonight he will be winnowing barley on the threshing-floor. Wash, put on perfume, and get dressed in your best clothes. Then go down to the threshing-floor, but don’t let him know you are there until he has finished eating and drinking.

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Footnotes

  1. Ruth 3:1 Hebrew find rest (see 1:9)