Ruth 2:6

New American Bible - revised edition

The young man overseeing the harvesters answered, “She is the young Moabite who came back with Naomi from the plateau of Moab.

Cross References

Genesis 15:2

But Abram said, “Lord God, what can you give me, if I die childless and have only a servant of my household, Eliezer of Damascus?”

Genesis 24:2

Abraham said to the senior servant of his household, who had charge of all his possessions: “Put your hand under my thigh,

Genesis 39:4

he favored Joseph and made him his personal attendant; he put him in charge of his household and entrusted to him all his possessions.

Matthew 20:8

When it was evening the owner of the vineyard said to his foreman, ‘Summon the laborers and give them their pay, beginning with the last and ending with the first.’

Matthew 24:45

“Who, then, is the faithful and prudent servant, whom the master has put in charge of his household to distribute to them their food at the proper time?

Ruth 1:16

But Ruth said, “Do not press me to go back and abandon you! Wherever you go I will go, wherever you lodge I will lodge. Your people shall be my people and your God, my God.

Ruth 1:19

So they went on together until they reached Bethlehem. On their arrival there, the whole town was excited about them, and the women asked: “Can this be Naomi?”

Ruth 1:22

Thus it was that Naomi came back with her Moabite daughter-in-law Ruth, who accompanied her back from the plateau of Moab. They arrived in Bethlehem at the beginning of the barley harvest.

Ruth 2:5

Boaz asked the young man overseeing his harvesters, “Whose young woman is this?”

Ruth 2:7

She said, ‘I would like to gather the gleanings into sheaves after the harvesters.’ Ever since she came this morning she has remained here until now, with scarcely a moment’s rest.”