Verse 23

So Ruth worked beside Boaz’s female servants, gathering grain until the end of the barley harvest as well as the wheat harvest. After that she stayed home with her mother-in-law.

Referenced Verses

• Deut 16:9 : 9 The Festival of Weeks You must count seven weeks; you must begin to count them from the time you begin to harvest the standing grain.
• Prov 6:6-8 : 6 Go to the ant, you sluggard; observe its ways and be wise! 7 It has no commander, overseer, or ruler, 8 yet it would prepare its food in the summer; it gathered at the harvest what it will eat.
• Prov 13:1 : 1 A wise son accepts his father’s discipline, but a scoffer has never listened to rebuke.
• Prov 13:20 : 20 The one who associates with the wise grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.
• 1 Cor 15:33 : 33 Do not be deceived:“Bad company corrupts good morals.”
• Eph 6:1-3 : 1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. 2 “Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment accompanied by a promise, namely, 3 “that it will go well with you and that you will live a long time on the earth.”