“Now Boaz, with whose women you have worked, is a relative of ours. Tonight he will be winnowing barley on the threshing floor. Wash, put on perfume, and get dressed in your best clothes. Then go down to the threshing floor, but don’t let him know you are there until he has finished eating and drinking. When he lies down, note the place where he is lying. Then go and uncover his feet and lie down. He will tell you what to do.” – (Ruth 3:2-4)
If brothers are living together and one of them dies without a son, his widow must not marry outside the family. Her husband’s brother shall take her and marry her and fulfill the duty of a brother-in-law to her. The first son she bears shall carry on the name of the dead brother so that his name will not be blotted out from Israel. (Deuteronomy 25:5-6)
“I never make promises lightly, and there have been some I’ve broken, but I swear in the days still left, we will walk in fields of gold.” – (Sting – 1993 – Ten Summoner’s Tales album.)
“You’ll remember me when the west wind moves
Upon the fields of barley
You’ll forget the sun in his jealous sky
As we walk in fields of gold.” – (Sting – from his song lyrics in Fields of Gold)
“This was the only shame he felt. And this shame was so great in him that he wondered if all his life thereafter would be long enough to wash it out of his brain and blood and the last pollution of its loathsome taint. And yet, he would have it thought that he was bitter.” -(Thomas Wolfe – You Can’t Go Home Again)