Ruth 2:8 meaning and explanation
Then Boaz said to Ruth, “Listen, my daughter. Do not go and glean in another field, and do not go away from this place, but stay here close to my servant girls.
Ruth 2:8, Berean Standard Bible
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Boaz is speaking to Ruth, the Moabite widow who has come to glean in his field to feed herself and her mother-in-law Naomi. Gleaning, gathering leftover grain, was a right the law gave to the poor, but a foreign woman was vulnerable.
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