<P> Although Boaz was the prince of the people , he personally supervised the threshing of the grain in his barn , in order to circumvent any immorality or theft , both of which were rife in his days ( Tan. , Behar , ed . Buber , viii. ; Ruth Rabba to iii. 7 ) . Glad in his heart that the famine was over in Israel , he sought rest after having thanked God and studied for a while in the Torah ( Tan. , l.c. ; Targum Ruth iii. 7 ; and Ruth Rabba ib . ) . Aroused out of his first sleep by Ruth , he was greatly frightened , as he thought that she was a devil ; and he was convinced of the contrary only after touching the hair of her head , since devils were believed to be bald ( Tan. , l.c. ) . When he perceived the pure and holy intentions of Ruth he not only did not reprove her for her unusual behavior , but he blessed her , and gave her six measures of barley , indicating thereby that six pious men should spring from her , who would be gifted by God with six excellences ( cf . Isaiah 11 : 2 ; Sanhedrin 93b ; Numbers Rabba xiii. 11 ; Ruth Rabba and Targum to Ruth iii. 15 ; the names of the six men differ in these passages , but David and the Messiah are always among them ) . Boaz fulfilled the promises he had given to Ruth , and when his kinsman ( the sources differ as to the precise relationship existing between them ) would not marry her because he did not know the halakah which decreed that Moabite women were not excluded from the Israelitic community , Boaz himself married her ( Ruth Rabba to iv. 1 ) . Boaz was eighty and Ruth forty years old ( idem to iii. 10 ) , but their marriage did not remain childless , though Boaz died the day after his wedding ( Midrash Zutta , ed . Buber , 55 , below ) . </P>
<P> Although Boaz was the prince of the people , he personally supervised the threshing of the grain in his barn , in order to circumvent any immorality or theft , both of which were rife in his days ( Tan. , Behar , ed . Buber , viii. ; Ruth Rabba to iii. 7 ) . Glad in his heart that the famine was over in Israel , he sought rest after having thanked God and studied for a while in the Torah ( Tan. , l.c. ; Targum Ruth iii. 7 ; and Ruth Rabba ib . ) . Aroused out of his first sleep by Ruth , he was greatly frightened , as he thought that she was a devil ; and he was convinced of the contrary only after touching the hair of her head , since devils were believed to be bald ( Tan. , l.c. ) . When he perceived the pure and holy intentions of Ruth he not only did not reprove her for her unusual behavior , but he blessed her , and gave her six measures of barley , indicating thereby that six pious men should spring from her , who would be gifted by God with six excellences ( cf . Isaiah 11 : 2 ; Sanhedrin 93b ; Numbers Rabba xiii. 11 ; Ruth Rabba and Targum to Ruth iii. 15 ; the names of the six men differ in these passages , but David and the Messiah are always among them ) . Boaz fulfilled the promises he had given to Ruth , and when his kinsman ( the sources differ as to the precise relationship existing between them ) would not marry her because he did not know the halakah which decreed that Moabite women were not excluded from the Israelitic community , Boaz himself married her ( Ruth Rabba to iv. 1 ) . Boaz was eighty and Ruth forty years old ( idem to iii. 10 ) , but their marriage did not remain childless , though Boaz died the day after his wedding ( Midrash Zutta , ed . Buber , 55 , below ) . </P>
how old was ruth in the bible when she married boaz
how old was ruth in the bible when she married boaz
forty years old
forty years old