6 So she went down to the grain-floor and did all her mother-in-law had said to her.
My son, give ear to the training of your father, and do not give up the teaching of your mother:
Give honour to your father and to your mother, so that your life may be long in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.
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Commentary on Ruth 3 Matthew Henry Commentary
Chapter 3
We found it very easy, in the former chapter, to applaud the decency of Ruth's behaviour, and to show what good use we may make of the account given us of it; but in this chapter we shall have much ado to vindicate it from the imputation of indecency, and to save it from having an ill use made of it; but the goodness of those times was such as saved what is recorded here from being ill done, and yet the badness of these times is such as that it will not justify any now in doing the like. Here is,
Rth 3:1-5
Here is,
Rth 3:6-13
Here is,
Rth 3:14-18
We are here told,