So she kept close to the young women of Boaz, gleaning until the end of the barley and wheat harvests. And she lived with her mother-in-law.
Whoever walks with the wise 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 the sickle is first put to the standing grain.
Do not be deceived: "Bad company ruins good morals."[3]
And as Peter was below in the courtyard, one of the servant girls of the high priest came,
(The flax and the barley were struck down, for the barley was in the ear and the flax was in bud.
And Naomi said to Ruth, her daughter-in-law, "It is good, my daughter, that you go out with his young women, lest in another field you be assaulted."
Then Naomi her mother-in-law said to her, "My daughter, should I not seek rest for you, that it may be well with you?
So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabite her daughter-in-law with her, who returned from the country of Moab. And they came to Bethlehem at the beginning of barley harvest.