Ruth 3:3

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Now wash and anoint yourself, and put on your best clothes and go down to the threshing floor, but do not make yourself known to the man until he has finished eating and drinking.

Cross References

2 Samuel 14:2

Joab sent to Tekoa and brought from there a wise woman. He said to her, “Pretend to be a mourner; put on mourning garments, and do not anoint yourself with oil, but behave like a woman who has been mourning many days for the dead.

Esther 5:1

On the third day Esther put on her royal robes and stood in the inner court of the king’s palace, opposite the king’s hall. The king was sitting on his royal throne inside the palace opposite the entrance to the palace.

Matthew 6:17

But when you fast, put oil on your head and wash your face,

Ecclesiastes 9:8

Let your garments always be white; do not let oil be lacking on your head.

Psalm 104:15

and wine to gladden the human heart, oil to make the face shine and bread to strengthen the human heart.

Ruth 3:2

Now here is our kinsman Boaz, with whose young women you have been working. See, he is winnowing barley tonight at the threshing floor.

Ruth 3:4

When he lies down, observe the place where he lies; then go and uncover his feet and lie down, and he will tell you what to do.”

2 Samuel 12:20

Then David rose from the ground, washed, anointed himself, and changed his clothes. He went into the house of the Lord and worshiped; he then went to his own house, and when he asked, they set food before him, and he ate.

Ezekiel 16:9

Then I bathed you with water and washed off the blood from you and anointed you with oil.