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Ruth 2:21
New English Translation
Ruth 2:21
New English Translation
21 Ruth the Moabite replied, “He even[a] told me, ‘You may go along beside my servants[b] until they have finished gathering all my harvest!’”[c]
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- Ruth 2:21 tn On the force of the phrase גָּם כִּי (gam ki) here, see F. W. Bush, Ruth, Esther (WBC), 138-39.
- Ruth 2:21 tn Heb “with the servants who are mine you may stay close.” The imperfect has a permissive nuance here. The word “servants” is masculine plural.
- Ruth 2:21 tn Heb “until they have finished all the harvest which is mine”; NIV “until they finish harvesting all my grain.”
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