Verse 2

Now is not Boaz, our relative, with whose young women you have been working? Tonight, he will be winnowing barley at the threshing floor.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ruth 2:8 : 8 So Boaz said to Ruth, "Listen, my daughter. Do not go to glean in another field, and do not leave this one. Stay close to my young women.
  • Ruth 2:20-23 : 20 Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, "May he be blessed by the LORD, who has not stopped showing his kindness to the living and the dead." She added, "That man is a close relative of ours; he is one of our kinsman-redeemers." 21 Then Ruth the Moabite said, "He even told me, 'Stay close to my harvesters until they have finished all my harvest.'" 22 Naomi said to Ruth, her daughter-in-law, "It is good, my daughter, that you go out with his young women, so that you may not be harmed in another field." 23 So Ruth stayed close to the young women of Boaz to glean until the barley harvest and the wheat harvest were finished. And she lived with her mother-in-law.
  • Heb 2:11-14 : 11 Both the One who sanctifies and those who are being sanctified are all of one Father. That is why He is not ashamed to call them brothers, 12 saying, 'I will declare Your name to My brothers; in the midst of the assembly I will sing Your praise.' 13 And again, 'I will put my trust in Him.' And again, 'Here am I, and the children God has given Me.' 14 Since the children share in flesh and blood, He too likewise partook of the same, so that through death He might destroy the one who has the power of death—that is, the devil.
  • Deut 25:5-9 : 5 If brothers live together and one of them dies without a son, the dead man's wife must not be married outside the family to a stranger. Her brother-in-law is to take her as his wife and fulfill the duty of a brother-in-law to her. 6 The first son she bears shall carry on the name of the dead brother, so that his name is not blotted out of Israel. 7 But if the man does not wish to marry his brother's widow, she shall go to the elders at the city gate and say, 'My brother-in-law is refusing to perform his duty to preserve his brother's name in Israel. He is unwilling to marry me.' 8 Then the elders of his city shall summon him and speak to him. If he persists and says, 'I do not want to marry her,' 9 then his brother's widow shall approach him in the presence of the elders, remove his sandal from his foot, spit in his face, and declare, 'This is what is done to the man who will not build up his brother's family line.' 10 His family shall be known in Israel as 'The Family of the Unsandaled.'
  • Ruth 2:1 : 1 Now Naomi had a relative on her husband's side, a prominent and wealthy man of the family of Elimelech. His name was Boaz.