Ruth 2:9

New American Bible - revised edition

Watch to see which field is to be harvested, and follow them. Have I not commanded the young men to do you no harm? When you are thirsty, go and drink from the vessels the young people have filled.”

Cross References

Genesis 20:6

God answered him in the dream: Yes, I know you did it with a pure heart. In fact, it was I who kept you from sinning against me; that is why I did not let you touch her.

Job 19:21

Pity me, pity me, you my friends, for the hand of God has struck me!

Psalm 105:15

“Do not touch my anointed ones, to my prophets do no harm.”

Proverbs 6:29

So with him who sleeps with another’s wife— none who touches her shall go unpunished.

Matthew 10:42

And whoever gives only a cup of cold water to one of these little ones to drink because he is a disciple—amen, I say to you, he will surely not lose his reward.”

1 Corinthians 7:1

Now in regard to the matters about which you wrote: “It is a good thing for a man not to touch a woman,”

1 John 5:18

We know that no one begotten by God sins; but the one begotten by God he protects, and the evil one cannot touch him.

Ruth 2:10

Casting herself prostrate upon the ground, she said to him, “Why should I, a foreigner, be favored with your attention?”

Ruth 2:8

Boaz then spoke to Ruth, “Listen, my daughter. Do not go to glean in anyone else’s field; you are not to leave here. Stay here with my young women.