Ruth 3:9

Good News Translation

“Who are you?” he asked. “It's Ruth, sir,” she answered. “Because you are a close relative, you are responsible for taking care of me. So please marry me.”

Cross References

Ezekiel 16:8

“As I passed by again, I saw that the time had come for you to fall in love. I covered your naked body with my coat and promised to love you. Yes, I made a marriage covenant with you, and you became mine.” This is what the Sovereign Lord says.

Luke 14:11

For those who make themselves great will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be made great.”

Ruth 2:20

“May the Lord bless Boaz!” Naomi exclaimed. “The Lord always keeps his promises to the living and the dead.” And she went on, “That man is a close relative of ours, one of those responsible for taking care of us.”

Ruth 3:10

“The Lord bless you,” he said. “You are showing even greater family loyalty in what you are doing now than in what you did for your mother-in-law. You might have gone looking for a young man, either rich or poor, but you haven't.

Ruth 3:12

It is true that I am a close relative and am responsible for you, but there is a man who is a closer relative than I am.

Ruth 3:8

During the night he woke up suddenly, turned over, and was surprised to find a woman lying at his feet.

Ruth 4:4

and I think you ought to know about it. Now then, if you want it, buy it in the presence of these men sitting here. But if you don't want it, say so, because the right to buy it belongs first to you and then to me.” The man said, “I will buy it.”

Ruth 4:6

The man answered, “In that case I will give up my right to buy the field, because it would mean that my own children would not inherit it. You buy it; I would rather not.”

1 Samuel 25:41

Abigail bowed down to the ground and said, “I am his servant, ready to wash the feet of his servants.”