She said, “He gave me these sixty pounds of barley, for he said to me, ¹  ‘Do not go to your mother-in-law empty-handed.’” ² 

biblegateway Rut 3:17

She said, "These six measures of barley he gave to me, for he said, ‘Do not go to your mother-in-law empty-handed.’"

She said, "He gave me these six measures of barley, because he said, 'Don't go back to your mother-in-law empty-handed.'"

She said, "He gave me these six measures of barley and told me not to come back to you empty–handed."

biblegateway Rut 3:17

and added, "He gave me these six measures of barley, saying, ‘Don’t go back to your mother-in-law empty-handed.’"

saying, "These six measures of barley he gave to me, for he said to me, 'You must not go back empty-handed to your mother-in-law.'"

bibleoremus Rut 3:17

saying, "He gave me these six measures of barley, for he said, ‘Do not go back to your mother-in-law empty-handed.’"

and she added, “He gave me these six measures of barley; he would not let me come home to my mother-in-law empty-handed.”

biblegateway Rut 3:17

And she said, "These six ephahs of barley he gave me; for he said to me, ‘Do not go empty–handed to your mother–in–law.’"

And she said, These six [measures] of barley gave he me; for he said to me, Go not empty unto thy mother in law.

biblegateway Rut 3:17

She said, “He gave me these sixty pounds of barley, for he said to me, ¹  ‘Do not go to your mother-in-law empty-handed.’” ² 

¹ tc The MT (Kethib) lacks the preposition אֵלַי (’elay, “to me”) which is attested in the marginal reading (Qere).

² sn ‘Do not go to your mother-in-law empty-handed.’ In addition to being a further gesture of kindness on Boaz’s part, the gift of barley served as a token of his intention to fulfill his responsibility as family guardian. See R. L. Hubbard, Jr., Ruth (NICOT), 225-26, and F. W. Bush, Ruth, Esther (WBC), 187.