Ruth 2:22 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

²² And Naomi said to Ruth, her daughter-in-law, “It is well, my daughter, that you go out with his maidens, lest in another field you be molested.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²² And Naomi said unto Ruth her daughter in law, It is good, my daughter, that thou go out with his maidens, that they meet thee not in any other field.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²² And Naomi said to Ruth, It is good, my daughter, for you to go out with his maidens, lest in any other field you be molested.

American Standard Version (1901)

²² And Naomi said unto Ruth her daughter-in-law, It is good, my daughter, that thou go out with his maidens, and that they meet thee not in any other field.

Common English Bible

²² Naomi said to Ruth her daughter-in-law, “It’s good, my daughter, that you go out with his young women, so that men don’t assault you in another field.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

²² And her mother-in-law said to her, "It is better, my daughter, to go out reaping with his young women, lest in a stranger's field someone may confront you."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²² 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.

Ruth 2:22 Cross References

Proverbs 27:10

Your friend, and your father's friend, do not forsake; and do not go to your brother's house in the day of your calamity. Better is a neighbor who is near than a brother who is far away.

Song of Solomon 1:8

If you do not know, O fairest among women, follow in the tracks of the flock, and pasture your kids beside the shepherds' tents.

Mark 14:66

And as Peter was below in the courtyard, one of the maids of the high priest came;

Ruth 2:21

And Ruth the Moabitess said, “Besides, he said to me, ‘You shall keep close by my servants, till they have finished all my harvest.’ ”

Ruth 2:23

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.