So she went down to the threshing floor and did just as her mother-in-law had commanded her.
Hear, my son, your father’s instruction, and forsake not your mother’s teaching,
His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.”
“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.
You are my friends if you do what I command you.
And she replied, “All that you say I will do.”
And when Boaz had eaten and drunk, and his heart was merry, he went to lie down at the end of the heap of grain. Then she came softly and uncovered his feet and lay down.
Esther had not made known her people or kindred, for Mordecai had commanded her not to make it known.