1 Naomi her mother-in-law said to her, "My daughter, should I not look for a resting place for you, where you will be well off?
2 Is not Boaz, whose young women you were with, our kinsman? See, tonight he will be winnowing barley on the threshing floor.
3 Wash yourself, then, and put on oil, and put your cloak on you and go down to the threshing floor. Do not let the man know you are there until he has finished eating and drinking.
4 When he lies down, take note of the place where he is lying; then go in, uncover the place at his feet and lie down, and he will tell you what you should do."
5 She answered her, "Everything you say I will do."
6 She went down to the threshing floor and did everything her mother-in-law had instructed her.
7 Boaz ate and drank, and his heart was glad, and he went to lie down at the edge of the grain pile. Then she came softly, uncovered the place at his feet, and lay down.
8 In the middle of the night the man shuddered and twisted around, and there was a woman lying at his feet!
9 "Who are you?" he said. She said, "I am Ruth, your servant. Spread the corner of your garment over your servant, since you are a redeemer."
10 He said, "Blessed are you by the LORD, my daughter. This latest kindness of yours is better than the first, because you have not gone after the young men, poor or rich.
11 So now, my daughter, do not fear. Whatever you ask I will do for you, for everyone at the gate of my people knows that you are a worthy woman.
12 It is true that I am a redeemer; but there is also a redeemer closer in kin than I am.
13 Spend the night here. In the morning, if he will act as redeemer for you, well and good, let him redeem; but if he does not want to redeem you, then I will redeem you myself, as the LORD lives. Lie here until morning."
14 So she lay at his feet till morning, and she got up before a person could make out his neighbor; for he said, "Do not let it be known that the woman came to the threshing floor."
15 And he said, "Bring the shawl that is on you and hold it out." She held it out, and he measured six measures of barley and laid it on her. Then he went into the town.
16 She came to her mother-in-law, who asked, "How did it go, my daughter?" She told her everything the man had done for her,
17 and said, "These six measures of barley he gave me, because he said, 'You must not go to your mother-in-law empty-handed.'"
18 Naomi said, "Sit tight, my daughter, until you find out how the matter will fall; for the man will not be at rest until he has brought the matter to an end today."