Ruth Chapter 3 Uncovering feet


Ruth 3:1 – 4-5 Uncovering feet



Ruth 3:1-16
Then Naomi her mother-in-law said to her, "My daughter, shall I not seek security for you, that it may be well with you?

2 "Now is not Boaz our kinsman, with whose maids you were? Behold, he winnows barley at the threshing floor tonight.

3 "Wash yourself therefore, and anoint yourself and put on your best clothes, and go down to the threshing floor; but do not make yourself known to the man until he has finished eating and drinking.

4 "It shall be when he lies down, that you shall notice the place where he lies, and you shall go and uncover his feet AND LIE DOWN; then he will tell you what you shall do."


5 She said to her, "All that you say I will do."
6 So she went down to the threshing floor and did according to all that her mother-in-law had commanded her.

7 When Boaz had eaten and drunk and his heart was merry, he went to lie down at the end of the heap of grain; and she came secretly, and uncovered his feet AND LAY DOWN.


8 It happened in the middle of the night that the man was startled AND BENT FORWARD; AND BEHOLD, A WOMAN WAS LYING AT HIS FEET. (“he saw a woman”)


9 He said, "Who are you?" And she answered, "I am Ruth your maid. So spread your covering over your maid, for you are a close relative. Our closest Redeemer"


10 Then he said, "May you be blessed of the LORD, my daughter. You have shown your last kindness to be better than the first by not going after young men, whether poor or rich.


11 "Now, my daughter, do not fear. I will do for you whatever you ask, for all my people in the city know that you are a woman of excellence.

12 "Now it is true I am a close relative; however, there is a relative closer than I.
13 "Remain this night, and when morning comes, if he will redeem you, good; let him redeem you. But if he does not wish to redeem you cannot redeem you , then I will redeem you, as the LORD lives. Lie down until morning.stay here until the morning"


14 So she lay at his feet until morning and rose before one could recognize another; and he said, "Let it not be known that the woman came to the threshing floor."


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.


4:1 Then Boaz went up to the gate and sat down there, and behold, this relative was passing by, so he said, "Turn aside, friend, sit down here." And he did so.
2 He took ten men of the elders of the city and said, "Sit down here." So they sat down.
3 Then Boaz said to the closest relative,
4 "So I thought to inform you, saying, 'Buy it before those who are sitting here, and before the elders of my people. If you will redeem it, redeem it; but if not, tell me that I may know; for there is no one but you to redeem it, and I am after you.' And he said, 'I will redeem it.'"

5 So Boaz says, "On the day you buy the field for the hand of Naomi, you must also acquire the Moabitess, the widow of the deceased, in order to raise up the name of the deceased on his inheritance."


Romans 7:1-4 Do you not know, brethren, that the law has jurisdiction over a person as long as he lives? For the married woman is bound by law to her husband while he is living; but if her husband dies, she is released from the law concerning the husband. So then, if while her husband is living she is joined to another man, she shall be called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is not an adulteress though she is joined to another man. Therefore, my brethren, you also were made to die to the Law through the body of Christ, so that you might be joined to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, that we might bear fruit for God