Ruth 2:9 meaning and explanation
Let your eyes be on the field they are harvesting, and follow along after these girls. Indeed, I have ordered the young men not to touch you. And when you are thirsty, go and drink from the jars the young men have filled.”
Ruth 2:9, Berean Standard Bible
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Boaz is speaking to Ruth, a Moabite widow who has come to glean in his field to feed herself and her mother-in-law Naomi. Gleaning, gathering leftover grain, was the poor person's right in Israel's law, but a foreign woman was vulnerable.
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