Rut 3:9 | TNotes | STEP | 3:9 your servant: Ruth deliberately identified herself with the female workers. • Spread ... your covering over me: This was a way of asking Boaz to marry her (cp. Ezek 16:8 ). • Ruth appealed to Boaz’s status as a family redeemer (Hebrew go’el ) to persuade him to marry her (see Ruth 4:5 ; thematic note for The Family Redeemer at end of chapter).

bEzek 16:8►

cRuth 4:5►

‏ Ruth 3:9

3:9 ^a your servant: Ruth deliberately identified herself with the female workers.

• Spread ... your covering over me: This was a way of asking Boaz to marry her (cp. Ezek 16:8 ^b).

• Ruth appealed to Boaz’s status as a family redeemer (Hebrew go’el) to persuade him to marry her (see Ruth 4:5 ^c; thematic note for The Family Redeemer at end of chapter).