Ruth Threshing Floor Bible

A threshing floor is important in the biblical story of ruth and boaz.

Ruth threshing floor bible.

Boaz wakes and sees a woman lying at his feet ruth 3 8. When ruth returned home naomi asked. Ruth 3 new international version niv ruth and boaz at the threshing floor 3 one day ruth s mother in law naomi said to her my daughter i must find a home a for you where you will be well provided for. Ruth goes to the threshing floor uncovers boaz and lies down.

2 now boaz with whose women you have worked is a relative of ours. In those times if a woman s husband died it was very difficult for her to survive on her own and very often the woman would be redeemed by her husband s nearest kinsmen leviticus 25 25. The process of threshing was performed generally by spreading the sheaves on the threshing floor and causing oxen and cattle to tread repeatedly over them loosening the edible part of cereal grain or other crop from the scaly inedible chaff that surrounds it deuteronomy 25 4. First there had to be a flat surface that was smooth and hard and this was known as the threshing floor.

Ruth and boaz have their climactic scene in chapter 3 of the bible s most famous love story. Rather than follow naomi s script ruth reveals the end goal of naomi s stratagem. New king james version. It is here on the thrashing floor that redemption is worked out courage is rewarded and love is forged.

Threshing floors are in danger of being robbed 1 samuel 23 1. So she went down to the threshing floor and did everything her mother in law had instructed her to do. On occasion flails or sticks were used for this purpose ruth 2 17. For this reason someone always sleeps on the floor until the grain is removed ruth 3 7.

Boaz gave ruth a gift when she left the threshing floor to return home and this reminds readers of the gift that judah gave to tamar after he had sex with her. Ruth following naomi s instructions goes to boaz in the middle of the night and shares with him the desires of her heart. New american standard bible so she went down to the threshing floor and did according to all that her mother in law had commanded her.