We are sharing the reading of God' s word in the Old Testament and at this opportunity it will be chapter three of Ruth' s Book. Ruth ' s Chapter Three. Then said her mother- in- law Naomi, my daughter, I will not seek a home for you to do well. You' re not our relative, whose maids you' ve been with. Here' s what he' s blowing up tonight, the escape parva. So you will wash and anoint yourself and put on your clothes, you will
go to the threshing floor more. You will not make yourself known to the male until he has finished eating and drinking. And when he goes to bed, you' ll notice where he lies. And you will go and discover his feet and lie there and he will tell you what you have here and she will answer. I will do all that you command me to go down to the threshing floor and do all that his mother- in- law had commanded him. And when you had eaten and drunk and your heart was happy.
He retired to sleep on the side of the pile. Then she came quietly and discovered his feet and lay down and it happened that at midnight the man shivered and turned and here a woman lay at his feet. Then he said who you are and she answered. I am ruth Your handmaid spreads the edge of Your cape over You, handmaid because You are a close relative and He said blessed Be Thou of the LORD, my daughter, Thou hast done thy last goodness better than the first, not going in search of the young
be they poor or rich. Fear not now, my child, I will do with you whatever you say, for all the people of my people know that you are a virtuous woman. And now, though true, I' m a close relative. With all that, there' s a relative closer than me. Spend the night here and when it is day, if he redeems you, well, redeem you more. If he wouldn' t redeem you, I' ll redeem you. Jehovah lives, so he rests until
the morning. And after he slept at his feet until the morning, he rose before men could recognize one another because he said it is not known that woman came to the era. Then he said to her take off the robe that he brings upon you and hold it and hold it She measured six measures of barley and put them on her and she went to the city and when
she came to her mother- in- law. She told him what was there, my daughter, and told him all that had happened with the man, and said these six measures of medium barley, saying to me that you should not go to your mother- in- law empty- handed. Then he told me to wait, my daughter, until you know how the matter is resolved, for that man will not rest until the matter is finished today.