Ruth 2:10 Midrash: Ruth Rabbah

וַתִּפֹּל֙ עַל־פָּנֶ֔יהָ וַתִּשְׁתַּ֖חוּ אָ֑רְצָה וַתֹּ֣אמֶר אֵלָ֗יו מַדּוּעַ֩ מָצָ֨אתִי חֵ֤ן בְּעֵינֶ֙יךָ֙ לְהַכִּירֵ֔נִי וְאָּנֹכִ֖י נָכְרִיָּֽה׃

Then she fell on her face, and bowed down to the ground, and said unto him: ‘Why have I found favour in thy sight, that thou shouldest take cognizance of me, seeing I am a foreigner?’

Ruth Rabbah

“She fell on her face, and prostrated herself to the ground, and said to him: Why have I found favor in your eyes, to acknowledge me, and I a foreigner?” (Ruth 2:10).
“She fell on her face, and prostrated herself to the ground…[to acknowledge me [lehakireni]],” it teaches that she prophesied that he was destined to be intimate with her [lehakirah] in the way of the world.
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