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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Ruth 3 Literal Standard Version</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/ruth/3.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/ruth/3-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">LSV</a> > Ruth 3</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../ruth/2.htm" title="Ruth 2">◄</a> Ruth 3 <a href="../ruth/4.htm" title="Ruth 4">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Literal Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/ruth/3-1.htm#aramaic" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/3-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>And her mother-in-law Naomi says to her, “My daughter, do I not seek rest for you, that it may be well with you? <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/3-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>And now, is not Boaz of our acquaintance, with whose young women you have been? Behold, he is winnowing the threshing-floor of barley tonight, <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/3-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>and you have bathed, and anointed yourself, and put your garments on you, and gone down to the threshing-floor; do not let yourself be known to the man until he completes to eat and to drink; <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/3-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>and it comes to pass, when he lies down, that you have known the place where he lies down, and have gone in, and uncovered his feet, and lain down—and he declares to you that which you do.” <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/3-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And she says to her, “All that you say—I do.”<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/3-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And she goes down [to] the threshing-floor, and does according to all that her mother-in-law commanded her <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/3-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And Boaz eats and drinks, and his heart is glad; and he goes in to lie down at the end of the heap; and she comes in gently, and uncovers his feet, and lies down.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/3-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And it comes to pass, at the middle of the night, that the man trembles, and turns himself, and behold, a woman is lying at his feet. <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/3-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And he says, “Who [are] you?” And she says, “I [am] Ruth your handmaid, and you have spread your skirt over your handmaid, for you [are] a redeemer.” <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/3-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And he says, “Blessed [are] you of YHWH, my daughter; you have dealt more kindly at the latter end than at the beginning—not to go after the young men, either poor or rich. <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/3-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And now, my daughter, do not fear, all that you say I do to you, for all the gate of my people knows that you [are] a virtuous woman. <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/3-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And now, surely, true, that I [am] a redeemer, but also there is a redeemer nearer than I. <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/3-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Lodge tonight, and it has been in the morning, if he redeems you, well: he redeems; and if he does not delight to redeem you, then I have redeemed you—I; YHWH lives! Lie down until the morning.”<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/3-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And she lies down at his feet until the morning, and rises before one discerns another; and he says, “Let it not be known that the woman has come into the floor.” <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/3-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And he says, “Give the covering which [is] on you, and keep hold on it”; and she keeps hold on it, and he measures six [measures] of barley, and lays [it] on her; and he goes into the city. <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/3-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And she comes to her mother-in-law, and she says, “Who [are] you, my daughter?” And she declares to her all that the man has done to her. <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/3-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And she says, “These six [measures] of barley he has given to me, for he said, You do not go in empty to your mother-in-law.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/ruth/3-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And she says, “Sit still, my daughter, until you know how the matter falls, for the man does not rest except he has completed the matter today.”<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Literal Standard Version<br>Copyright © 2022 by Covenant Press. 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