When Ruth came to her mother-in-law, Naomi said, “How did it go, my daughter?” Then she told her all that Boaz had done for her.
He said, “Bring me the shawl you have on you, and hold it.” So she held it, and he poured six measures of barley into it and placed it on her. Then she went into the city.
She said, “He gave me these six measures of barley, for he said to me, ‘Do not return to your mother-in-law empty-handed.’ ”