3. Go wash yourself and put on perfume. Change your clothes, and go down to the threshing floor. But don’t let him see you until he has finished eating and drinking.
4. Then he will lie down. Watch him so you will know the place where he lies down. Go there and lift the cover off his feet and lie down. He will tell you what you should do.”
5. Then Ruth answered, “I will do everything you say.”
6. So Ruth went down to the threshing floor. She did all her mother-in-law told her to do.
7. After eating and drinking, Boaz was feeling good. He went to lie down beside the pile of grain. Then Ruth went to him quietly. She lifted the cover from his feet and lay down.
8. About midnight Boaz woke up suddenly and rolled over. He was startled! There was a woman lying near his feet!