Now Boaz, with whose women you have worked, is a relative(A) of ours. Tonight he will be winnowing barley on the threshing floor.(B) Wash,(C) put on perfume,(D) and get dressed in your best clothes.(E) Then go down to the threshing floor, but don’t let him know you are there until he has finished eating and drinking.(F) When he lies down, note the place where he is lying. Then go and uncover his feet and lie down. He will tell you what to do.”

“I will do whatever you say,”(G) Ruth answered. So she went down to the threshing floor(H) and did everything her mother-in-law told her to do.

When Boaz had finished eating and drinking and was in good spirits,(I) he went over to lie down at the far end of the grain pile.(J) Ruth approached quietly, uncovered his feet and lay down.

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