## she bowed down before Boaz, touching her head to the ground ##
These are acts of respect and reverence. She was showing honor to Boaz out of gratefulness for what he had done for her. It was also a posture of humility.
## foreigner ##
Ruth had pledged her loyalty to the God of Israel in private, but she was known publicly as "the Moabitess."
This is a poetic expression that is very similar to the previous sentence. AT: "May Yahweh give back to you even more than you have given." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-parallelism]])
Boaz uses the picture of a mother bird gathering her chicks under her wings to protect them to describe God's protection for those who trust in him. AT: "in whose safe care you have placed yourself." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])