Ruth 2:23 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

So she stayed close to the young women of Boaz, gleaning until the end of the barley and wheat harvests, and she lived with her mother-in-law.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

So she kept fast by the maidens of Boaz to glean unto the end of barley harvest and of wheat harvest; and dwelt with her mother in law.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

So she kept close to the maidens of Boaz, gleaning until the end of the barley and wheat harvests. And she lived with her mother-in-law.

American Standard Version (1901)

So she kept fast by the maidens of Boaz, to glean unto the end of barley harvest and of wheat harvest; and she dwelt with her mother-in-law.

Common English Bible

Thus she stayed with Boaz’s young women, gleaning until the completion of the barley and wheat harvests. And she lived with her mother-in-law.

Catholic Public Domain Version

And so, she joined with the young women of Boaz, and from then on reaped with them, until the barley and the wheat were stored in the barns.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

So she kept close to the maids of Booz: and continued to glean with them, till all the barley and the wheat were laid up in the barns.

Ruth 2:23 Cross References

Exodus 9:31

(Now the flax and the barley were ruined, for the barley was in the ear and the flax was in bud.

Proverbs 13:1

A wise child loves discipline, but a scoffer does not listen to rebuke.

Proverbs 13:20

Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise, but the companion of fools suffers harm.

Mark 14:66

While Peter was below in the courtyard, one of the female servants of the high priest came by.

1 Corinthians 15:33

Do not be deceived: “Bad company ruins good morals.”

Deuteronomy 16:9

“You shall count seven weeks; begin to count the seven weeks from the time the sickle is first put to the standing grain.

Ruth 1:22

So Naomi returned together with Ruth the Moabite, her daughter-in-law, who came back with her from the country of Moab. They came to Bethlehem at the beginning of the barley harvest.

Ruth 2:22

Naomi said to Ruth, her daughter-in-law, “It is better, my daughter, that you go out with his young women, otherwise someone might bother you in another field.”

Ruth 3:1

Naomi her mother-in-law said to her, “My daughter, I need to seek some security for you, so that it may be well with you.