Ruth 2:16

16 And also pull out for her from your bundles and leave [it] so that she may glean--and do not rebuke her."

Ruth 2:16 Meaning and Commentary

Ruth 2:16

And let fall some of the handfuls on purpose for her
That is, when they had reaped an handful, instead of laying it in its proper order, to be taken up by those that gathered after them, or by themselves, in order to be bound up in sheaves, scatter it about, or let it fall where they reaped it:

and leave them, that she may glean them, and rebuke her not
for taking them, as if she did a wrong thing.

Ruth 2:16 In-Context

14 And Boaz said to her {at mealtime}, "Come here and eat from the bread and dip your morsel in the wine vinegar." So she sat beside the gleaners, and he offered to her roasted grain. And she ate and was satisfied, and she had some left over.
15 And she got up to glean, and Boaz instructed his servants saying, "Let her also glean between the sheaves and do not reproach her.
16 And also pull out for her from your bundles and leave [it] so that she may glean--and do not rebuke her."
17 So she gleaned in the field until the evening and she beat out what she had gleaned, and it was about an ephah [of] barley.
18 And she picked [it] up and went [to] the town. Her mother-in-law saw how much she had gleaned. And she took [it] out and gave to her what she had left over {after being satisfied}.
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