11 Now, my daughter, don’t be afraid. I will do everything you ask, because all the people in our town know you are a good woman.
12 It is true that I am a relative who is to take care of you, but you have a closer relative than I.
13 Stay here tonight, and in the morning we will see if he will take care of you. If he decides to take care of you, that is fine. But if he refuses, I will take care of you myself, as surely as the Lord lives. So stay here until morning.”
14 So Ruth stayed near his feet until morning but got up while it was still too dark to recognize anyone. Boaz thought, “People in town must not know that the woman came here to the threshing floor.”
15 So Boaz said to Ruth, “Bring me your shawl and hold it open.”So Ruth held her shawl open, and Boaz poured six portions of barley into it. Boaz then put it on her head and went back to the city.
16 When Ruth went back to her mother-in-law, Naomi asked, “How did you do, my daughter?”Ruth told Naomi everything that Boaz did for her.
17 She said, “Boaz gave me these six portions of barley, saying, ‘You must not go home without a gift for your mother-in-law.’ ”