She seeks wool and flax, and works eagerly with her hands.
Now the Kohen of Midyan had seven daughters. They came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father's flock.
She does him good, and not harm, all the days of her life.
She is like the merchant ships. She brings her bread from afar.
and that you make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, even as we charged you;
being approved by good works, if she has brought up children, if she has been hospitable to strangers, if she has washed the holy ones' feet, if she has relieved the afflicted, and if she has diligently followed every good work.
I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, and give no occasion to the adversary for reviling.
to be sober minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that God's word may not be blasphemed.
So she kept fast by the maidens of Bo`az, to glean to the end of barley harvest and of wheat harvest; and she lived with her mother-in-law.