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“ Are there yet to me sons in my bowels that they have been to you for husbands? 12 Turn back, my daughters, go, for I am too aged to be to a husband; though I had said, There is for me hope, also, I have been tonight to a husband, and also I have borne sons: 13 do you wait for them until they grow up? Do you shut yourselves up for them, not to be to a husband? No, my daughters, for more bitter to me than to you, for the hand of YHWH has gone out against me." 14 And they lift up their voice, and weep again, and Orpah kisses her mother-in-law, and Ruth has cleaved to her. ”

“ Chapter 3 1 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? 2 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, 3 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 ”

“ Chapter 4 1 And Boaz has gone up to the gate, and sits there, and behold, the redeemer is passing by of whom Boaz had spoken, and he says, "Turn aside, sit down here, such a one, such a one"; and he turns aside and sits down. 2 And he takes ten men from [the] elderly of the city, and says, "Sit down here"; and they sit down. 3 And he says to the redeemer, "A portion of the field which [is] to our brother, to Elimelech, has Naomi sold, who has come back from the fields of Moab; 4 and I said, I uncover your ear, saying, Buy before the inhabitants and before [the] elderly of my people ”