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.' "