10. “The Lord bless you,” he said. “You are showing even greater family loyalty in what you are doing now than in what you did for your mother-in-law. You might have gone looking for a young man, either rich or poor, but you didn't.
11. Now don't worry, Ruth. I will do everything you ask; as everyone in town knows, you are a fine woman.
12. It is true that I am a close relative and am responsible for you, but there is a man who is a closer relative than I am.
13. Stay here the rest of the night, and in the morning we will find out whether or not he will take responsibility for you. If so, well and good; if not, then I swear by the living Lord that I will take the responsibility. Now lie down and stay here till morning.”
14. So she lay there at his feet, but she got up before it was light enough for her to be seen, because Boaz did not want anyone to know that she had been there.
15. Boaz said to her, “Take off your cloak and spread it out here.” She did, and he poured out nearly twenty kilogrammes of barley and helped her to lift it on her shoulder. Then she returned to the town with it.
16. When she arrived home, her mother-in-law asked her, “How did you get on, my daughter?”Ruth told her everything that Boaz had done for her.
17. She added, “He told me I must not come back to you empty-handed, so he gave me all this barley.”
18. Naomi said to her, “Now be patient, Ruth, until you see how this all turns out. Boaz will not rest today until he settles the matter.”