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When Ruth returned home, her mother-in-law asked her, “Who art thou?” i.e., as what person, in what circumstances dost thou come? The real meaning is, What hast thou accomplished? Whereupon she related all that the man had done (cf. Rth 3:10-14), and that he had given her six measures of barley for her mother. The Masorites have supplied אֵלַי after אָמַר, as at Rth 3:5, but without any necessity. The mother-in-law drew from this the hope that Boaz would now certainly carry out the matter to the desired end. “Sit still,” i.e., remain quietly at home (see Gen 38:11), “till thou hearest how the affair turn out,” namely, whether the nearer redeemer mentioned by Boaz, or Boaz himself, would grant her the Levirate marriage. The expression “fall,” in this sense, is founded upon the idea of the falling of the lot to the ground; it is different in Ezr 7:20. “For the man will not rest unless he has carried the affair to an end this day.” כִּי־אִם, except that, as in Lev 22:6, etc. (see Ewald, §356, b).