Ruth 3:2–9

²Now Boaz, with whose women you have worked, is a relative^s of ours. Tonight he will be winnowing barley on the threshing floor.^{t 3}Wash,^u put on perfume,^v and get dressed in your best clothes.^w Then go down to the threshing floor, but don’t let him know you are there until he has finished eating and drinking.^{x 4}When he lies down, note the place where he is lying. Then go and uncover his feet and lie down. He will tell you what to do.”

⁵“I will do whatever you say,”^y Ruth answered. ⁶So she went down to the threshing floor^z and did everything her mother-in-law told her to do.

⁷When Boaz had finished eating and drinking and was in good spirits,^a he went over to lie down at the far end of the grain pile.^b Ruth approached quietly, uncovered his feet and lay down. ⁸In the middle of the night something startled the man; he turned—and there was a woman lying at his feet!

⁹“Who are you?” he asked.

“I am your servant Ruth,” she said. “Spread the corner of your garment^c over me, since you are a guardian-redeemer^bd of our family.”