Ruth 2:9

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

Let your eyes be upon the field which they are reaping, and go after them. Have I not charged the young men not to molest you? And when you are thirsty, go to the vessels and drink what the young men have drawn.”

Cross References

Genesis 20:6

Then God said to him in the dream, “Yes, I know that you have done this in the integrity of your heart, and it was I who kept you from sinning against me; therefore I did not let you touch her.

Job 19:21

Have pity on me, have pity on me, O you my friends, for the hand of God has touched me!

Psalm 105:15

saying, “Touch not my anointed ones, do my prophets no harm!”

Proverbs 6:29

So is he who goes in to his neighbor's wife; none who touches her will go unpunished.

Matthew 10:42

And whoever gives to one of these little ones even a cup of cold water because he is a disciple, truly, I say to you, he shall not lose his reward.”

1 Corinthians 7:1

Now concerning the matters about which you wrote. It is well for a man not to touch a woman.

1 John 5:18

We know that any one born of God does not sin, but He who was born of God keeps him, and the evil one does not touch him.

Ruth 2:10

Then she fell on her face, bowing to the ground, and said to him, “Why have I found favor in your eyes, that you should take notice of me, when I am a foreigner?”

Ruth 2:8

Then Boaz said to Ruth, “Now, listen, my daughter, do not go to glean in another field or leave this one, but keep close to my maidens.