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Then Boaz said to his servant who was set over the reapers, “Whose young lady is this?”
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Verse 5. Man. Hebrew nahar, a man in the prime of life. He had the care of all in the field, during the absence of his master; whence Josephus styles him agrocomos, or agronomos. Menochius.—Homer mentions an officer or king, standing with his sceptre in the midst of the reapers, and silently rejoicing at the rich profusion of the field. Iliad.—Thus we see the taste of the ancients, while agriculture was honourable.
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