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Now it is true that I am a near relation: but there is a relation nearer than I.
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Take your rest here tonight; and in the morning, if he will do for you what it is right for a relation to do, very well, let him do so: but if he will not, then by the living Lord I myself will do so.
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And she took her rest at his feet till the morning: and she got up before it was light enough for one to see another. And he said, Let it not come to anyone's knowledge that the woman came to the grain-floor.
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And he said, Take your robe, stretching it out in your hands: and she did so, and he took six measures of grain and put them into it, and gave it her to take: and she went back to the town.
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And when she came back her mother-in-law said to her, How did it go with you, my daughter? And she gave her an account of all the man had done to her.
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And she said, He gave me these six measures of grain, saying, Do not go back to your mother-in-law with nothing in your hands.
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Then she said, Do nothing now, my daughter, till you see what will come of this; for the man will take no rest till he has put this thing through.