15 And he told her, “Bring the shawl you are wearing and hold it out.” When she did so, he shoveled six measures of barley into her shawl. Then he went into the city. 16 When Ruth returned to her mother-in-law, Naomi asked her, “How did it go, my daughter?” Then Ruth told her all that Boaz had done for her. 17 And she said, “He gave me these six measures of barley, for he said, ‘Do not go back to your mother-in-law empty-handed.’”
Ruth 3:15–17
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Ruth 2:17–19
17 So Ruth gathered grain in the field until evening. And when she beat out what she had gleaned, it was about an ephah of barley. 18 She picked up the grain and went into the town, where her mother-in-law saw what she had gleaned. And she brought out what she had s…
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Ruth 3:5–7
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Ruth 1:21–22
21 I went away full, but the LORD has brought me back empty. Why call me Naomi? After all, the LORD has testified against me, and the Almighty has afflicted me.” 22 So Naomi returned from the land of Moab with her daughter-in-law Ruth the Moabitess. And they arrived…
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Ruth 2:6–8
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1 One day Ruth’s mother-in-law Naomi said to her, “My daughter, should I not seek a resting place for you, that it may be well with you? 2 Now is not Boaz, with whose servant girls you have been working, a relative of ours? In fact, tonight he is winnowing barley… 3 …
Ruth 4:12–14
12 And may your house become like the house of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah, because of the offspring the LORD will give you by this young woman.” 13 So Boaz took Ruth, and she became his wife. And when he had relations with her, the LORD enabled her to conceive,…
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