Ruth 2:9

A Conservative Version

Let thine eyes be on the field that they reap, and go thou after them. Have I not charged the young men that they shall not touch thee? And when thou are thirsty, go to the vessels, and drink of that which the young men have drawn.

Cross References

1 John 5:18

We know that every man who has been begotten from God does not sin, but he who was begotten from God keeps himself, and the evil does not touch him.

Genesis 20:6

And God said to him in the dream, Yes, I know that in the integrity of thy heart thou have done this. And I also withheld thee from sinning against me. Therefore I did not allow thee to touch her.

1 Corinthians 7:1

Now concerning the things of which ye wrote to me. It is good for a man not to touch a woman.

Matthew 10:42

And whoever may give to drink one of these little ones merely a cold cup in the name of a disciple, truly I say to you he will, no, not lose his reward.

Proverbs 6:29

So [is] he who goes in to his neighbor's wife. Whoever touches her shall not be unpunished.

Psalm 105:15

[saying], Touch not my anointed men, and do my prophets no harm.

Job 19:21

Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends, for the hand of God has touched me.

Ruth 2:8

Then Boaz said to Ruth, Do thou not hear, my daughter? Go not to glean in another field, neither pass from here, but abide here close by my maidens.

Ruth 2:10

Then she fell on her face, and bowed herself to the ground, and said to him, Why have I found favor in thy sight that thou should take knowledge of me, seeing I am a foreigner?