Ruth 3:2

3:2 Now Boaz, with whose female servants you worked, is our close relative. ¹  Look, tonight he is winnowing barley at the threshing floor. ² 

Ruth 4:17

4:17 The neighbor women named him, saying, “A son has been born to Naomi.” They named him Obed. ³  Now he became the father of Jesse – David’s father!

[3:2]  ¹ tn Heb “Is not Boaz our close relative, with whose female servants you were?” The idiomatic, negated rhetorical question is equivalent to an affirmation (see Ruth 2:8-9; 3:1) and has thus been translated in the affirmative (so also NCV, NRSV, TEV, CEV, NLT).

[3:2]  ² tn Heb “look, he is winnowing the barley threshing floor tonight.”

[4:17]  ³ tn The name “Obed” means “one who serves,” perhaps anticipating how he would help Naomi (see v. 15).