Ruth 2:16 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

¹⁶ 1 And Ruth said, He also charged me, that I should keep close to his reapers, till all the corn should be reaped.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ and let fall also some of the handfuls of purpose for her, and leave them, that she may glean them, and rebuke her not.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ And let fall some handfuls for her on purpose and let them lie there for her to glean, and do not rebuke her.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ And also pull out some for her from the bundles, and leave it, and let her glean, and rebuke her not.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ Also, pull out some from the bales for her and leave them behind for her to glean. And don’t scold her.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ and purposely let fall some from your bundles, and allow them to remain, so that she may gather without blushing, and let no one rebuke her gathering."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁶ And let fall some of your handfuls of purpose, and leave them, that she may gather them without shame: and let no man rebuke her when she gathereth them.

Ruth 2:16 Cross References

Psalm 112:9

and looketh down on the low things in heaven and in earth?

Proverbs 19:17

4 The slothful hideth his hand under his armpit, and will not so much as bring it to his mouth.

Matthew 25:40

You know that after two days shall be the pasch, and the son of man shall be delivered up to be crucified:

Romans 12:13

LET every soul be subject to higher powers: for there is no power but from God: and those that are, are ordained of God.

Philemon 1:7

6 Not now as a servant, but instead of a servant, a most dear brother, especially to me: but how much more to thee both in the flesh and in the Lord?

Hebrews 6:10

9 Which we have as an anchor of the soul, sure and firm, and which entereth in even within the veil;

Ruth 2:15

0 And Noemi answered her: Blessed be he of the Lord: because the same kindness which he shewed to the living, he hath kept also to the dead. And again she said: The man is our kinsman.

Ruth 2:17

2 And her mother in law said to her: It is better for thee, my daughter, to go out to reap with his maids, lest in another man's field some one may resist thee.