Ruth 2:21 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²¹ Then Ruth the Moabite said, “He even said to me, ‘Stay close by my young men until they have finished all my harvest.’ ”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²¹ And Ruth the Moabitess said, He said unto me also, Thou shalt keep fast by my young men, until they have ended all my harvest.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²¹ And Ruth the Moabitess said, He said to me also, Stay close to my young men until they have harvested my entire crop.

American Standard Version (1901)

²¹ And Ruth the Moabitess said, Yea, he said unto me, Thou shalt keep fast by my young men, until they have ended all my harvest.

Common English Bible

²¹ Ruth the Moabite replied, “Furthermore, he said to me, ‘Stay with my workers until they’ve finished all of my harvest.’”

Catholic Public Domain Version

²¹ And Ruth said, "He charged me with this also, that from now on I should join with his reapers until all the crop has been reaped."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²¹ And Ruth said: He also charged me, that I should keep close to his reapers, till all the corn should be reaped.

Ruth 2:21 Cross References

Ruth 2:20

Then Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, “Blessed be he by the Lord, whose kindness has not forsaken the living or the dead!” Naomi also said to her, “The man is a relative of ours, one of our nearest kin.”

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.”