Ruth 3:15-17

Expanded Bible

¹⁵ So Boaz said to Ruth, “Bring me your ·shawl [cloak] and hold it open.”

So Ruth held her ·shawl [cloak] open, and Boaz poured six portions of barley into it. Boaz then put it on ·her head [or her back; ^Lher] and went^[a] back to the city.

¹⁶ When Ruth went back to her mother-in-law, Naomi asked, “How did ·you do [things go], my daughter?”

Ruth told Naomi everything that ·Boaz [^Lthe man] did for her. ¹⁷ She said, “Boaz gave me these six portions of barley, saying, ‘You must not go home ·without a gift for [^Lempty to] your mother-in-law.’”