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Ruth 2:6

Listen to Ruth 2:6
6 And his servant who was set over the reapers answered and said, It is the Moabitish damsel who returned with Noemin out of the land of Moab.

Ruth 2:6 Meaning and Commentary

Ruth 2:6

And the servant that was set over the reapers answered and
said
Who had taken a great deal of notice of Ruth, and had conversed with her, and so was capable of giving answers to his master's question:

it is the Moabitish damsel that came back with Naomi, out of the
country of Moab;
perhaps he had not got knowledge of her name, and therefore only describes her by the country from whence she came; and by her coming from thence along with Naomi, when she returned from Moab, with whose name Boaz was well acquainted, and of whose return he had been informed; and perhaps had seen her in person, and even Ruth also, though he might have forgot her; the Targum makes the servant to add, that she was become a proselytess.

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Ruth 2:6 In-Context

4 And, behold, Booz came from Bethleem, and said to the reapers, The Lord with you: and they said to him, The Lord bless thee.
5 And Booz said to his servant who was set over the reapers, Whose this damsel?
6 And his servant who was set over the reapers answered and said, It is the Moabitish damsel who returned with Noemin out of the land of Moab.
7 And she said, I pray you, let me glean and gather among the sheaves after the reapers: and she came and stood from morning till evening, and rested not a little in the field.
8 And Booz said to Ruth, Hast thou not heard, daughter? go not to glean in another field; and depart not thou hence, join thyself here with my damsels.

The Brenton translation of the Septuagint is in the public domain.

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