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Ruth 2:1-3
Evangelical Heritage Version
Ruth 2:1-3
Evangelical Heritage Version
Ruth Meets Boaz
2 Now Naomi had a relative[a] of her husband, a wealthy, generous[b] man from the clan of Elimelek. His name was Boaz.
2 Ruth the Moabite said to Naomi, “I am going to go out to the fields, so that I can glean[c] ears of grain wherever I may find favor in the eyes of the owner.” Naomi said to her, “Go ahead, my daughter.”
3 So Ruth went out and gleaned in the grain fields after the reapers. It happened that she was in the field that belonged to Boaz, who was from the clan of Elimelek.
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- Ruth 2:1 Or acquaintance
- Ruth 2:1 The same Hebrew expression includes the meanings wealthy and generous.
- Ruth 2:2 Gleaning was a custom that allowed poor people to follow the harvesters and to pick up any grain that had been missed or had been dropped by the harvesters. See Deuteronomy 24:19.
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