OLD TESTAMENT

Ruth 2:23

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So she stayed close to the maidens of Boaz, to glean to the end of barley harvest and of wheat harvest; and she lived with her mother-in-law.

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Verse 23. And the wheat. Hebrew Syr. and Arab. “It is good that thou keep close to the maidens of Booz, and continue to glean with them till,” and so forth This was the advice of Noemi: but Providence ordered that Ruth should be married to Booz before the commencement of the wheat harvest. Calmet.—The Prot. agree with the Vulg. and Septuagint “So she kept fast by, and so forth unto the end of the barley harvest, and of the wheat harvest, and dwelt with her mother-in-law.” These last words are expressed by the Vulg in the following chapter. H..

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