11. Dear woman, don't be afraid. I'll do for you everything you ask. All of the people of my town know that you are a noble woman.
12. "It's true that I'm a relative of yours. But there's a family protector who is more closely related to you than I am.
13. So stay here for the night. In the morning if he wants to help you, good. Let him help you. But if he doesn't want to, then I'll do it. You can be sure that the Lord lives. And you can be just as sure that I'll help you. Lie down here until morning."
14. So she stayed at his feet until morning. But she got up before anyone could be recognized. Boaz thought, "No one must know that a woman came to the threshing floor."
15. He said to Ruth, "Bring me the coat you have around you. Hold it out." So she did. He poured more than fifty pounds of barley into it and helped her pick it up. Then he went back to town.
16. Ruth came to her mother-in-law. Naomi asked, "How did it go, my daughter?" Then Ruth told her everything Boaz had done for her.
17. She said, "He gave me all of this barley. He said, 'Don't go back to your mother-in-law with your hands empty.' "