Ruth 3:16

World English Bible (2000)

When she came to her mother-in-law, she said, "How did it go, my daughter?" She told her all that the man had done to her.

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  • Ruth 3:17-18
    2 verses
    88%

    17She said, "He gave me these six [measures] of barley; for he said, 'Don't go empty to your mother-in-law.'"

    18Then she said, "Sit still, my daughter, until you know how the matter will fall; for the man will not rest, until he has finished the thing this day."

  • Ruth 3:14-15
    2 verses
    85%

    14She lay at his feet until the morning. She rose up before one could discern another. For he said, "Let it not be known that the woman came to the threshing floor."

    15He said, "Bring the mantle that is on you, and hold it." She held it; and he measured six [measures] of barley, and laid it on her; and he went into the city.

  • Ruth 2:17-23
    7 verses
    83%

    17So she gleaned in the field until evening; and she beat out that which she had gleaned, and it was about an ephah of barley.

    18She took it up, and went into the city; and her mother-in-law saw what she had gleaned: and she brought forth and gave to her that which she had left after she was sufficed.

    19Her mother-in-law said to her, "Where have you gleaned today? Where have you worked? Blessed be he who noticed you." She showed her mother-in-law with whom she had worked, and said, "The man's name with whom I worked today is Boaz."

    20Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, "Blessed be he of Yahweh, who has not left off his kindness to the living and to the dead." Naomi said to her, "The man is a close relative to us, one of our near kinsmen."

    21Ruth the Moabitess said, "Yes, he said to me, 'You shall stay close to my young men, until they have ended all my harvest.'"

    22Naomi said to Ruth her daughter-in-law, "It is good, my daughter, that you go out with his maidens, and that they not meet you in any other field."

    23So she stayed close to the maidens of Boaz, to glean to the end of barley harvest and of wheat harvest; and she lived with her mother-in-law.

  • Ruth 3:5-12
    8 verses
    81%

    5She said to her, "All that you say I will do."

    6She went down to the threshing floor, and did according to all that her mother-in-law told her.

    7When Boaz had eaten and drunk, and his heart was merry, he went to lie down at the end of the heap of grain. She came softly, uncovered his feet, and laid her down.

    8It happened at midnight, that the man was startled and turned himself; and behold, a woman lay at his feet.

    9He said, "Who are you?" She answered, "I am Ruth your handmaid. Therefore spread your skirt over your handmaid; for you are a near kinsman."

    10He said, "Blessed are you by Yahweh, my daughter. You have shown more kindness in the latter end than at the beginning, inasmuch as you didn't follow young men, whether poor or rich.

    11Now, my daughter, don't be afraid; I will do to you all that you say; for all the city of my people does know that you are a worthy woman.

    12Now it is true that I am a near kinsman; however there is a kinsman nearer than I.

  • Ruth 1:6-11
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    6Then she arose with her daughters-in-law, that she might return from the country of Moab: for she had heard in the country of Moab how that Yahweh had visited his people in giving them bread.

    7She went forth out of the place where she was, and her two daughters-in-law with her; and they went on the way to return to the land of Judah.

    8Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, "Go, return each of you to her mother's house: Yahweh deal kindly with you, as you have dealt with the dead, and with me.

    9Yahweh grant you that you may find rest, each of you in the house of her husband." Then she kissed them, and they lifted up their voice, and wept.

    10They said to her, "No, but we will return with you to your people."

    11Naomi said, "Go back, my daughters. Why do you want to go with me? Do I still have sons in my womb, that they may be your husbands?

  • Ruth 2:10-11
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    10Then she fell on her face, and bowed herself to the ground, and said to him, "Why have I found favor in your sight, that you should take knowledge of me, since I am a foreigner?"

    11Boaz answered her, "It has fully been shown me, all that you have done to your mother-in-law since the death of your husband; and how you have left your father and your mother, and the land of your birth, and have come to a people that you didn't know before.

  • Ruth 3:1-3
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    79%

    1Naomi her mother-in-law said to her, "My daughter, shall I not seek rest for you, that it may be well with you?

    2Now isn't Boaz our kinsman, with whose maidens you were? Behold, he winnows barley tonight in the threshing floor.

    3Therefore wash yourself, anoint yourself, get dressed, and go down to the threshing floor, but don't make yourself known to the man until he has finished eating and drinking.

  • Ruth 2:5-8
    4 verses
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    5Then Boaz said to his servant who was set over the reapers, "Whose young lady is this?"

    6The servant who was set over the reapers answered, "It is the Moabite lady who came back with Naomi out of the country of Moab.

    7She said, 'Please let me glean and gather after the reapers among the sheaves.' So she came, and has continued even from the morning until now, except that she stayed a little in the house."

    8Then Boaz said to Ruth, "Listen, my daughter. Don't go to glean in another field, and don't go from here, but stay here close to my maidens.

  • Ruth 1:13-15
    3 verses
    76%

    13would you then wait until they were grown? Would you then refrain from having husbands? No, my daughters, for it grieves me much for your sakes, for the hand of Yahweh has gone out against me."

    14They lifted up their voice, and wept again: and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth joined with her.

    15She said, "Behold, your sister-in-law has gone back to her people, and to her god. Follow your sister-in-law."

  • Ruth 1:21-22
    2 verses
    76%

    21I went out full, and Yahweh has brought me home again empty; why do you call me Naomi, since Yahweh has testified against me, and the Almighty has afflicted me?"

    22So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter-in-law, with her, who returned out of the country of Moab: and they came to Bethlehem in the beginning of barley harvest.

  • Ruth 2:2-3
    2 verses
    75%

    2Ruth the Moabitess said to Naomi, "Let me now go to the field, and glean among the ears of grain after him in whose sight I shall find favor." She said to her, "Go, my daughter."

    3She went, and came and gleaned in the field after the reapers: and she happened to come to the portion of the field belonging to Boaz, who was of the family of Elimelech.

  • 16He turned to her by the way, and said, "Please come, let me come in to you," for he didn't know that she was his daughter-in-law. She said, "What will you give me, that you may come in to me?"

  • Ruth 1:18-19
    2 verses
    74%

    18When she saw that she was steadfastly minded to go with her, she left off speaking to her.

    19So they two went until they came to Bethlehem. It happened, when they were come to Bethlehem, that all the city was moved about them, and [the women] said, "Is this Naomi?"

  • 15When she had risen up to glean, Boaz commanded his young men, saying, "Let her glean even among the sheaves, and don't reproach her.

  • 13Then she said, "Let me find favor in your sight, my lord, because you have comforted me, and because you have spoken kindly to your handmaid, though I am not as one of your handmaidens."

  • Ruth 4:15-16
    2 verses
    72%

    15He shall be to you a restorer of life, and sustain you in your old age, for your daughter-in-law, who loves you, who is better to you than seven sons, has borne him."

    16Naomi took the child, and laid it in her bosom, and became nurse to it.

  • 11All the people who were in the gate, and the elders, said, "We are witnesses. May Yahweh make the woman who has come into your house like Rachel and like Leah, which two built the house of Israel; and treat you worthily in Ephrathah, and be famous in Bethlehem.

  • 24She said to him, "I am the daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah, whom she bore to Nahor."