Ruth 2:2

God's Word

Ruth, who was from Moab, said to Naomi, “Please let me go to the field of anyone who will be kind to me. There I will gather the grain left behind by the reapers.” Naomi told her, “Go, my daughter.”

Cross References

Genesis 32:6

When the messengers came back to Jacob, they said, “We went to your brother Esau. He is coming to meet you with 400 men.”

Leviticus 19:10

Don’t harvest your vineyard a second time or pick up fallen grapes. Leave them for poor people and foreigners. I am the Lord your God.

Leviticus 19:16

Never gossip. Never endanger your neighbor’s life. I am the Lord.

Leviticus 19:9

“When you harvest the grain in your land, don’t harvest the grain in the corners of your fields or gather what is left after you’re finished.

Leviticus 23:22

“When you harvest the grain in your land, don’t harvest the grain in the corners of your fields or gather what is left after you’re finished. Leave it for poor people and foreigners. I am the Lord your God.”

Ruth 2:3

So Ruth went. She entered a field and gathered the grain left behind by the reapers. Now it happened that she ended up in the part of the field that belonged to Boaz, who was from Elimelech’s family.

Ruth 2:7

She said, ‘Please let me gather grain. I will only gather among the bundles behind the reapers.’ So she came here and has been on her feet from daybreak until now. She just sat down this minute in the shelter.”

1 Samuel 1:18

“May you continue to be kind to me,” she said. Then the woman went her way and ate. She was no longer sad.