<p class="bodytext">Later during the mealtime Boaz said to her, &#8220;Come here and have<n id="1" /> some food! Dip your bread<n id="2" /> in the vinegar!&#8221; So she sat down beside the harvesters. Then he handed<n id="3" /> her some roasted grain. She ate until she was full and saved the rest.<n id="4" />

Then take the ark of the <sc>Lordsc> and place it on the cart, and put in a chest beside it the gold objects you are sending to him as a guilt offering. You should then send it on its way.

<p class="poetry">For this is what the <sc>Lordsc> says:p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;Look, I am ready to extend to her prosperity that will flow like a river,p> <p class="poetry">the riches of nations will flow into her like a stream that floods its banks.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">You will nurse from her breast<n id="2" /> and be carried at her side;p> <p class="poetry">you will play on her knees.p>

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;Also for your part lie on your left side and place the iniquity<n id="1" /> of the house of Israel on it. For the number of days you lie on your side you will bear their iniquity.

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;When you have completed these days, then lie down a second time, but on your right side, and bear the iniquity of the house of Judah 40 days<n id="1" /> &#8211; I have assigned one day for each year.

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;As for you, take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt,<n id="1" /> put them in a single container, and make food<n id="2" /> from them for yourself. For the same number of days that you lie on your side &#8211; 390 days<n id="3" /> &#8211; you will eat it.

know for certain that the <sc>Lordsc> our God will no longer drive out these nations from before you. They will trap and ensnare you;<n id="1" /> they will be a whip that tears<n id="2" /> your sides and thorns that blind<n id="3" /> your eyes until you disappear<n id="4" /> from this good land the <sc>Lordsc> your God gave you.p>