Do Not Fear, My Daughter, for You Are Next Kin

Ruth was a maidservant to boaz, the man who owned the threshing floor. He gave her six measures of barley and said she must not go home empty handed. She measured it out then went into the city where she told her mother in law what he had done for her. Now if you want someone else to do your next of kin duty - let him remain this night but lie down at his feet until morning so that no-one will recognize one another. For i know that the lord is great, that our lord is above all gods. Whatever the lord pleases, he does in heaven and on earth, in the seas and all the deeps. O