Rute 2:5

5 Depois perguntou Boaz ao moço que estava posto sobre os segadores: De quem é esta moça?

Rute 2:5 Meaning and Commentary

Ruth 2:5

Then said Boaz unto his servant that was set over the reapers,
&c.] To direct them their work, what part each was to do, and to see that they did it well; to take care for provisions for them, and to pay them their wages when their work was done. Josephus ^F20 calls him (agrokomov) , that had the care of the field, and all things relative to it; the Jews ^F21 say, he was set over two and forty persons, whom he had the command of:

whose damsel is this?
to whom does she belong? of what family is she? whose daughter is she? or whose wife? for he thought, as Aben Ezra notes, that she was another man's wife; the Targum is, of what nation is she? perhaps her dress might be somewhat different from that of the Israelitish women.

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FOOTNOTES:

F20 Antiqu. l. 5. c. 9. sect. 2.
F21 Midrash Ruth, fol. 32. 1.

Rute 2:5 In-Context

3 Foi, pois, e chegando ao campo respigava após os segadores; e caiu-lhe em sorte uma parte do campo de Boaz, que era da família de Elimeleque.

4 E eis que Boaz veio de Belém, e disse aos segadores: O Senhor seja convosco. Responderam-lhe eles: O Senhor te abençoe.

5 Depois perguntou Boaz ao moço que estava posto sobre os segadores: De quem é esta moça?

6 Respondeu-lhe o moço: Esta é a moça moabita que voltou com Noêmi do país de Moabe.

7 Disse-me ela: Deixa-me colher e ajuntar espigas por entre os molhos após os segadores: Assim ela veio, e está aqui desde pela manhã até agora, sem descansar nem sequer um pouco.