So she kept close to the maidens of Boaz, gleaning until the end of the barley and wheat harvests; and she lived with her mother-in-law.
He who walks with wise men becomes wise, but the companion of fools will suffer harm.
A wise son hears his father's instruction, but a scoffer does not listen to rebuke.
“You shall count seven weeks; begin to count the seven weeks from the time you first put the sickle to the standing grain.
Do not be deceived: “Bad company ruins good morals.”
And as Peter was below in the courtyard, one of the maids of the high priest came;
(The flax and the barley were ruined, for the barley was in the ear and the flax was in bud.
And Naomi said to Ruth, her daughter-in-law, “It is well, my daughter, that you go out with his maidens, lest in another field you be molested.”
Then Naomi her mother-in-law said to her, “My daughter, should I not seek a home for you, that it may be well with you?
So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabitess her daughter-in-law with her, who returned from the country of Moab. And they came to Bethlehem at the beginning of barley harvest.