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Ruth 2:21

Ruth

19 Then her mother-in-law asked her, “Where did you glean today, and where did you work? Blessed be the man who noticed you.” So she told her mother-in-law where she had worked. “The name of the man I worked with today is Boaz,” she said.

20 Then Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, “May he be blessed by the LORD, who has not withdrawn His kindness from the living or the dead.” Naomi continued, “The man is a close relative. He is one of our kinsman-redeemers.”

Then Ruth the Moabitess said, “He also told me, ‘Stay with my young men until they have finished gathering all my harvest.’”

22 And Naomi said to her daughter-in-law Ruth, “My daughter, it is good for you to work with his young women, so that nothing will happen to you in another field.”

23 So Ruth stayed close to the servant girls of Boaz to glean grain until the barley and wheat harvests were finished. And she lived with her mother-in-law.

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Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
Then Ruth the Moabitess said, “He also told me, ‘Stay with my young men until they have finished gathering all my harvest.’”
KJV
And Ruth the Moabitess said, He said unto me also, Thou shalt keep fast by my young men, until they have ended all my harvest.
WEB
Ruth the Moabitess said, “Yes, he said to me, ‘You shall stay close to my young men until they have finished all my harvest.’”
ASV
And Ruth the Moabitess said, Yea, he said unto me, Thou shalt keep fast by my young men, until they have ended all my harvest.
DARBY
And Ruth the Moabitess said, He said to me also, Thou shalt keep with my young men until they have ended all my harvest.
BLB
And Ruth the Moabitess said, “Also surely he said to me, ‘With the young men who [are] to me you shall cling, until that they have finished all the harvest that [is] unto me.’”
ÅB
Da sa Rut, moabittinnen: Han sa også til meg: Hold deg til mine folk til de er ferdig med hele min høst.
OTB
Da sa Rut moabittinnen: «Han sa til meg også: ‘Hold deg nær mine tjenere til de har fullført hele min innhøsting.’»
B1930
Da sa Rut, moabittinnen: Han sa også til mig: Hold dig til mine folk til de er ferdig med hele min høst.

Study notes (Tyndale)

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Cross references

  • Song of Solomon 1:7–8

    Tell me, O one I love, where do you pasture your sheep? Where do you rest them at midday? Why should I be like a veiled woman beside the flocks of your companions?

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  • Ruth 2:7–8

    She has said, ‘Please let me glean and gather among the sheaves after the harvesters.’ So she came out and has continued from morning until now, except that she rested a short time in the shelter.”

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  • Ruth 2:22

    And Naomi said to her daughter-in-law Ruth, “My daughter, it is good for you to work with his young women, so that nothing will happen to you in another field.”

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