Ruth 2:9

New English Translation

Take note of the field where the men are harvesting and follow behind with the female workers. I will tell the men to leave you alone. When you are thirsty, you may go to the water jars and drink some of the water the servants draw.”

Cross References

Genesis 20:6

Then in the dream God replied to him, “Yes, I know that you have done this with a clear conscience. That is why I have kept you from sinning against me and why I did not allow you to touch her.

Job 19:21

Have pity on me, my friends, have pity on me, for the hand of God has struck me.

Psalm 105:15

saying,“Don’t touch my chosen ones! Don’t harm my prophets!”

Proverbs 6:29

So it is with the one who has sex with his neighbor’s wife; no one who touches her will escape punishment.

Matthew 10:42

And whoever gives only a cup of cold water to one of these little ones in the name of a disciple, I tell you the truth, he will never lose his reward.”

1 Corinthians 7:1

Now with regard to the issues you wrote about: “It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman.”

1 John 5:18

We know that everyone fathered by God does not sin, but God protects the one he has fathered, and the evil one cannot touch him.

Ruth 2:10

Ruth knelt before him with her forehead to the ground and said to him, “Why are you so kind and so attentive to me, even though I am a foreigner?”

Ruth 2:8

So Boaz said to Ruth, “Listen carefully, my dear! Do not leave to gather grain in another field. You need not go beyond the limits of this field. You may go along beside my female workers.