¹² Although it is true that I am a guardian-redeemer of our family,^(A) there is another who is more closely related than^(B) I. ¹³ Stay here for the night, and in the morning if he wants to do his duty as your guardian-redeemer,^(C) good; let him redeem you. But if he is not willing, as surely as the Lord lives^(D) I will do it.^(E) Lie here until morning.”

¹⁴ So she lay at his feet until morning, but got up before anyone could be recognized; and he said, “No one must know that a woman came to the threshing floor.^(F)”^(G)