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Ruth 2:21

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

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

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.

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.

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This verse in Ruth 2

Commentary

5 notes on this verse

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

Keep fast by my young men - The word הנערים hannearim should be translated servants, both the male and female being included in it; the latter especially, as we see in Rth 2:22, Rth 2:23.

This site's exposition

Then Ruth the Moabitess said

on Ruth 2:21-23

Ruth reports Boaz as saying "Stay with my young men", where verse 8 has him name his servant girls, and Naomi steers her back toward the young women. The closing clause, "until the barley and wheat harvests were finished", spans the wave sheaf to the Feast of Weeks in Leviticus 23:10-16, about seven weeks. Chapter 3 opens with Naomi as the one who moves.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

2 And Ruth the Moabitess said unto Naomi, Let me now go to the field, and glean ears of corn after him in whose sight I shall find grace. And she said unto her, Go, my daughter. 3 And she went, and came, and gleaned in the field after the reapers: and her hap was to light on a part of the field belonging unto Boaz, who was of the kindred of Elimelech.

quarantine:scripture (2026-07-29) — verbatim-scripture

And Ruth the Moabitess said, he said unto me also,.... Besides the favours he has shown me already, he has given me reason to expect more, for he has given me this strict order: thou shalt keep fast by my young men, until they have ended all my harvest; both barley harvest and wheat harvest; his will was, that she kept following them, and gleaned after them, as long as both harvests lasted.

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

Note, Children should look upon themselves as accountable to their parents and to those that are over them, and not think it a disparagement to them to be examined; let them do that which is good, and they shall have praise of the same.

The words behind it

20 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַתֹּ֖אמֶרand she said

    vatomerH559 →5305 times

  • ר֣וּתRuth

    rutH7327 →12 times

  • הַמּוֹאֲבִיָּ֑הthe Moabite [woman]

    hamoaviyahH4125 →16 times

  • גַּ֣ם׀also

    gamH1571 →769 times

  • כִּי־that

    ki-H3588 →4482 times

  • אָמַ֣רhe said

    ʾamarH559 →5305 times

  • אֵלַ֗יto me

    ʾelaiH413 →5510 times

  • עִם־with

    ʾim-H5973 →1050 times

  • הַנְּעָרִ֤יםthe servants

    hanearimH5288 →239 times

  • אֲשֶׁר־who

    ʾasher-H834 →5497 times

  • לִי֙[belong] to <the> me

    li

  • תִּדְבָּקִ֔יןyou will stay !

    tidbakinH1692 →54 times

  • עַ֣דuntil

    ʾadH5704 →1261 times

  • אִם־<if>

    ʾim-H518 →1069 times

  • כִּלּ֔וּthey have completed

    kiluH3615 →208 times

  • אֵ֥ת<obj.>

    ʾetH853 →10935 times

  • כָּל־all

    kol-H3605 →5413 times

  • הַקָּצִ֖ירthe harvest

    hakatzirH7105 →54 times

  • אֲשֶׁר־which

    ʾasher-H834 →5497 times

  • לִֽי׃[belongs] to <the> me

    li

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

3 in all, six open

The walk

2 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    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.”

    it leads to

    • Song of Solomon 1:8

      If you do not know, O fairest of women, follow the tracks of the flock, and graze your young goats near the tents of the shepherds.

    • Proverbs 27:10

      Do not forsake your friend or your father’s friend, and do not go to your brother’s house in the day of your calamity; better a neighbor nearby than a brother far away.

Where this verse is studied

About Ruth

Ruth and Boaz — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
Ruth and Boaz — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
Ruth: the study guide →Read Ruth 2 →

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: Joshua, Judges, Ruth and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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