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Ruth Chapter 2

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Ruth

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Boaz invites Ruth to share a meal, and he praises her for her faithfulness to her mother‑in‑law. The chapter highlights the importance of hospitality and the covenant of kinship.

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(1) And Naomi had a kinsman of her husband's, a mighty man of wealth, of the family of Elimelech; and his name was Boaz.
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Ruth 3:2Ruth 3:12Deuteronomy 8:17Deuteronomy 8:18Job 1:3Job 31:25Ruth 4:21Judges 12:8Judges 12:9Judges 12:10I Chronicles 2:10I Chronicles 2:11

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Numbers 26:58Numbers 3:27Numbers 26:12Numbers 26:15Numbers 26:20Numbers 26:26

(2) And Ruth the Moabitess said unto Naomi, Let me now go to the field, and glean ears of corn after him in whose sight I shall find grace. And she said unto her, Go, my daughter.
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Leviticus 19:9Leviticus 19:16Leviticus 23:22Deuteronomy 24:19Deuteronomy 24:20Deuteronomy 24:21

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Ruth 2:22Ruth 2:8Ruth 4:5Romans 11:6Ruth 1:22Luke 12:53

(3) And she went, and came, and gleaned in the field after the reapers: and her hap was to light on a part of the field belonging unto Boaz, who was of the kindred of Elimelech.
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I Thessalonians 4:11I Thessalonians 4:12II Thessalonians 3:12II Kings 8:5Esther 6:1Esther 6:2Matthew 10:29Luke 10:31

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Genesis 23:17Exodus 9:25Exodus 22:5Revelation 8:12Isaiah 30:26Luke 11:36

(4) And, behold, Boaz came from Bethlehem, and said unto the reapers, The LORD be with you. And they answered him, The LORD bless thee.
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Psalms 118:26Psalms 129:7Psalms 129:8Luke 1:28II Thessalonians 3:16II Timothy 4:22II John 1:10II John 1:11Ruth 4:11Genesis 18:19Joshua 24:15Psalms 133:1

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Psalms 115:12

(5) Then said Boaz unto his servant that was set over the reapers, Whose damsel is this?
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Ruth 4:21I Chronicles 2:11I Chronicles 2:12

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I Samuel 12:3Philippians 3:19

(6) And the servant that was set over the reapers answered and said, It is the Moabitish damsel that came back with Naomi out of the country of Moab:
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Genesis 15:2Genesis 24:2Genesis 39:4Matthew 20:8Matthew 24:45Ruth 1:16Ruth 1:19Ruth 1:22

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Ruth 1:6Judges 11:18Ruth 1:2Ruth 1:22Ruth 4:3Jeremiah 48:39

(7) And she said, I pray you, let me glean and gather after the reapers among the sheaves: so she came, and hath continued even from the morning until now, that she tarried a little in the house.
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Proverbs 15:33Proverbs 18:23Matthew 5:3Ephesians 5:21I Peter 5:5I Peter 5:6Proverbs 13:4Proverbs 22:29Ecclesiastes 9:10Romans 12:11Galatians 6:9

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Matthew 13:30Proverbs 6:10Proverbs 24:33Ruth 2:15

(8) Then said Boaz unto Ruth, Hearest thou not, my daughter? Go not to glean in another field, neither go from hence, but abide here fast by my maidens:
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I Samuel 3:6I Samuel 3:16II Kings 5:13Matthew 9:2Matthew 9:22Song of Solomon 1:7Song of Solomon 1:8Matthew 10:7Matthew 10:8Matthew 10:9Matthew 10:10Matthew 10:11

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Ruth 2:22Ruth 2:2Luke 12:53Ruth 2:23Zechariah 8:19Genesis 23:17

(9) Let thine eyes be on the field that they do reap, and go thou after them: have I not charged the young men that they shall not touch thee? and when thou art athirst, go unto the vessels, and drink of that which the young men have drawn.
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Genesis 20:6Job 19:21Psalms 105:15Proverbs 6:29I Corinthians 7:1I John 5:18Genesis 24:18Genesis 24:19Genesis 24:20Matthew 10:42John 4:7John 4:8

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Deuteronomy 22:6II Samuel 18:12Numbers 8:8Judges 9:54I Samuel 25:5I Samuel 25:8

(10) Then she fell on her face, and bowed herself to the ground, and said unto him, Why have I found grace in thine eyes, that thou shouldest take knowledge of me, seeing I am a stranger?
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Genesis 18:2I Samuel 25:23Ruth 2:2Ruth 2:13II Samuel 9:8II Samuel 19:28Luke 1:43Luke 1:48Romans 12:10Isaiah 56:3Isaiah 56:4Isaiah 56:5

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Judges 5:27I Samuel 25:23II Samuel 14:22II Kings 4:37Obadiah 1:12Romans 11:6

(11) And Boaz answered and said unto her, It hath fully been shewed me, all that thou hast done unto thy mother in law since the death of thine husband: and how thou hast left thy father and thy mother, and the land of thy nativity, and art come unto a people which thou knewest not heretofore.
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Ruth 1:11Ruth 1:14Ruth 1:15Ruth 1:16Ruth 1:17Ruth 1:18Ruth 1:19Ruth 1:20Ruth 1:21Ruth 1:22Psalms 37:5Psalms 37:6

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Luke 12:53Ruth 2:19Genesis 27:14Leviticus 18:7Leviticus 20:9Judges 17:2

(12) The LORD recompense thy work, and a full reward be given thee of the LORD God of Israel, under whose wings thou art come to trust.
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I Samuel 24:19Psalms 19:11Psalms 58:11Proverbs 11:18Proverbs 23:18Matthew 5:12Matthew 6:1Matthew 10:41Matthew 10:42Luke 6:35Luke 14:12Luke 14:13

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I Samuel 12:3II Kings 18:22Job 8:14Isaiah 36:7Philippians 3:19Zechariah 5:9

(13) Then she said, Let me find favour in thy sight, my lord; for that thou hast comforted me, and for that thou hast spoken friendly unto thine handmaid, though I be not like unto one of thine handmaidens.
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Genesis 33:8Genesis 33:10Genesis 33:15Genesis 43:14I Samuel 1:18II Samuel 16:4Genesis 34:3Judges 19:3I Samuel 25:41Proverbs 15:33Philippians 2:3

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Ecclesiastes 8:17I Samuel 1:11Jeremiah 4:30I Corinthians 7:30II Corinthians 7:8

(14) And Boaz said unto her, At mealtime come thou hither, and eat of the bread, and dip thy morsel in the vinegar. And she sat beside the reapers: and he reached her parched corn, and she did eat, and was sufficed, and left.
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Job 31:16Job 31:17Job 31:18Job 31:19Job 31:20Job 31:21Job 31:22Proverbs 11:24Proverbs 11:25Isaiah 32:8Isaiah 58:7Isaiah 58:10

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Ruth 4:1Leviticus 23:38Joshua 5:11II Samuel 17:28

(15) And when she was risen up to glean, Boaz commanded his young men, saying, Let her glean even among the sheaves, and reproach her not:
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James 1:5

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Deuteronomy 22:6Ruth 2:7Ruth 2:8Ruth 2:23

(16) And let fall also some of the handfuls of purpose for her, and leave them, that she may glean them, and rebuke her not.
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Deuteronomy 24:19Deuteronomy 24:20Deuteronomy 24:21Psalms 112:9Proverbs 19:17Matthew 25:40Romans 12:13II Corinthians 8:5II Corinthians 8:6II Corinthians 8:7II Corinthians 8:8II Corinthians 8:9

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Ephesians 4:11II Samuel 17:9Matthew 13:8Matthew 13:23Mark 4:8Mark 4:20

(17) So she gleaned in the field until even, and beat out that she had gleaned: and it was about an ephah of barley.
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Proverbs 31:27Exodus 16:36Ezekiel 45:11Ezekiel 45:12

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Ruth 2:3Genesis 23:17Exodus 9:25Exodus 22:5II Samuel 14:30Ezekiel 45:13

(18) And she took it up, and went into the city: and her mother in law saw what she had gleaned: and she brought forth, and gave to her that she had reserved after she was sufficed.
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Ruth 2:14John 6:12John 6:13I Timothy 5:4

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Luke 12:53Ruth 2:19

(19) And her mother in law said unto her, Where hast thou gleaned to day? and where wroughtest thou? blessed be he that did take knowledge of thee. And she shewed her mother in law with whom she had wrought, and said, The man's name with whom I wrought to day is Boaz.
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Ruth 2:10Psalms 41:1II Corinthians 9:13II Corinthians 9:14II Corinthians 9:15I Kings 7:21

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Luke 12:53Ruth 2:11Judges 17:2Micah 7:6Genesis 27:14Leviticus 18:7

(20) And Naomi said unto her daughter in law, Blessed be he of the LORD, who hath not left off his kindness to the living and to the dead. And Naomi said unto her, The man is near of kin unto us, one of our next kinsmen.
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Ruth 3:10II Samuel 2:5Job 29:12Job 29:13II Timothy 1:16II Timothy 1:17II Timothy 1:18II Samuel 9:1Proverbs 17:17Philippians 4:10Ruth 3:9Ruth 4:6

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Leviticus 18:17Ruth 2:22Luke 12:53Genesis 27:27Ruth 3:10Ruth 4:14

(21) And Ruth the Moabitess said, He said unto me also, Thou shalt keep fast by my young men, until they have ended all my harvest.
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Ruth 2:7Ruth 2:8Ruth 2:22Song of Solomon 1:7Song of Solomon 1:8

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Zechariah 8:19Deuteronomy 22:6Ruth 1:22Ruth 2:23Luke 10:2Mark 2:18

(22) And Naomi said unto Ruth her daughter in law, It is good, my daughter, that thou go out with his maidens, that they meet thee not in any other field.
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Proverbs 27:10Song of Solomon 1:8

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Luke 12:53Genesis 36:2Leviticus 18:17Ruth 2:2Ruth 2:8Judges 11:34

(23) So she kept fast by the maidens of Boaz to glean unto the end of barley harvest and of wheat harvest; and dwelt with her mother in law.
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Proverbs 6:6Proverbs 6:7Proverbs 6:8Proverbs 13:1Proverbs 13:20I Corinthians 15:33Ephesians 6:1Ephesians 6:2Ephesians 6:3

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Luke 10:2II Samuel 21:9Matthew 13:30Genesis 30:14Luke 12:53Exodus 34:22

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