Ruth 2:23

New English Translation

So Ruth worked beside Boaz’s female servants, gathering grain until the end of the barley harvest as well as the wheat harvest. After that she stayed home with her mother-in-law.

Cross References

Exodus 9:31

(Now the flax and the barley were struck by the hail, for the barley had ripened and the flax was in bud.

Proverbs 13:1

A wise son accepts his father’s discipline, but a scoffer does not listen to rebuke.

Proverbs 13:20

The one who associates with the wise grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.

Mark 14:66

Now while Peter was below in the courtyard, one of the high priest’s slave girls came by.

1 Corinthians 15:33

Do not be deceived: “Bad company corrupts good morals.”

Deuteronomy 16:9

You must count seven weeks; you must begin to count them from the time you begin to harvest the standing grain.

Ruth 1:22

So Naomi returned, accompanied by her Moabite daughter-in-law Ruth, who came back with her from the region of Moab. (Now they arrived in Bethlehem at the beginning of the barley harvest.)

Ruth 2:22

Naomi then said to her daughter-in-law Ruth, “It is good, my daughter, that you should go out to work with his female servants. That way you will not be harmed, which could happen in another field.”

Ruth 3:1

At that time, Naomi, her mother-in-law, said to her, “My daughter, I must find a home for you so you will be secure.