Ruth 2:23

So, Ruth lived with Naomi and went to work every day until all the long grass was cut and the barley and other food seeds were put into the shed. And she did what she was told, she stayed close to the women that worked for Boaz.

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In The King James Version

So she kept fast by the maidens of Boaz to glean unto the end of barley harvest and of wheat harvest; and dwelt with her mother in law.

In Context

22And Naomi said, “Yes, that is a good idea my daughter. It is much better that you stay with his women workers. If you went to work in another person's paddock, somebody might do the wrong thing to you.”

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Cross References

Ruth 1:22That is how Naomi and Ruth, her daughter-in-law from Mo-ab, came home to Bethlehem. They got there when the people in that country started to go out to their paddocks to cut all the long barley grass. The people grew that barley grass to make food from the seeds.

Matthew Henry on Ruth 2:18-23

Ruth's Report to Naomi. ( b. c. 1312.) 17 So she gleaned in the field until even, and beat out that she had gleaned: and it was about an ephah of barley. 18 And she took it up, and went into the city: and her mother in law saw what she had gleaned: and she brought forth, and gave to her that she had reserved after she was sufficed. 19 And her mother in law said unto her, Where hast thou gleaned to day? and where wroughtest thou? blessed be he that did take knowledge of thee. And she showed her mother in law with… Read the whole commentary →

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