15. Again he said, "Give me the cloak that is on you and hold it." So she held it, and he measured six measures of barley and laid it on her. Then she went into the city.
16. When she came to her mother-in-law, she said, "How did it go, my daughter?" And she told her all that the man had done for her.
17. She said, "These six measures of barley he gave to me, for he said, 'Do not go to your mother-in-law empty-handed.'"
18. Then she said, "Wait, my daughter, until you know how the matter turns out; for the man will not rest until he has settled it today."