Ruth 3:17

3:17 She said, “He gave me these sixty pounds of barley, for he said to me,64 ‘Do not go to your mother-in-law empty-handed.’ ”65

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64	tc The MT (Kethib) lacks the preposition אֵלַי (’elay, “to me”) which is attested in the marginal reading (Qere).
65	sn ‘Do not go to your mother-in-law empty-handed.’ In addition to being a further gesture of kindness on Boaz’s part, the gift of barley served as a token of his intention to fulfill his responsibility as family guardian. See R. L. Hubbard, Jr., Ruth (NICOT), 225–26, and F. W. Bush, Ruth, Esther (WBC), 187.