路得记 2:15

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

她再起來去撿麥穗的時候，波阿斯吩咐僕人說：“就算她在禾捆堆中撿麥穗，也不可以辱罵她。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
他 起 来 又 拾 取 麦 穗 ， 波 阿 斯 吩 咐 仆 人 说 ： 他 就 是 在 捆 中 拾 取 麦 穗 ， 也 可 以 容 他 ， 不 可 羞 辱 他 ；

Contextual Overview

⁴ Soon Boaz came from Bethlehem and greeted his workers, "The Lord be with you!" And the workers answered, "May the Lord bless you!" ⁵ Then Boaz asked his servant in charge of the workers, "Whose girl is that?" ⁶ The servant answered, "She is the young Moabite woman who came back with Naomi from the country of Moab. ⁷ She said, ‘Please let me follow the workers cutting grain and gather what they leave behind.' She came and has remained here, from morning until just now. She has stopped only a few moments to rest in the shelter." ⁸ Then Boaz said to Ruth, "Listen, my daughter. Don't go to gather grain for yourself in another field. Don't even leave this field at all, but continue following closely behind my women workers. ⁹ Watch to see into which fields they go to cut grain and follow them. I have warned the young men not to bother you. When you are thirsty, you may go and drink from the water jugs that the young men have filled." ¹⁰ Then Ruth bowed low with her face to the ground and said to him, "I am not an Israelite. Why have you been so kind to notice me?" ¹¹ Boaz answered her, "I know about all the help you have given your mother-in-law after your husband died. You left your father and mother and your own country to come to a nation where you did not know anyone. ¹² May the Lord reward you for all you have done. May your wages be paid in full by the Lord , the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come for shelter." ¹³ Then Ruth said, "I hope I can continue to please you, sir. You have said kind and encouraging words to me, your servant, though I am not one of your servants."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

glean: The word glean comes from the French glaner to gather ears or grains of corn. This was formerly a general custom in England and Ireland. The poor went into the fields, and collected the straggling ears of corn after the reapers; and it was long supposed that this was their right, and that the law recognized it; but although it has been an old custom, it is now settled by a solemn judgment of the Court of Common Pleas, that a right to glean in the harvest field cannot be claimed by any person at common law. Any person may permit or prevent it on his own grounds. By the Irish Acts, 25; Henry VIII. c. 1, and 28; Henry VIII. c. 24, gleaning and leasing are so restricted as to be in fact prohibited in that part of the United Kingdom.

reproach: Heb. shame, James 1:5

Reciprocal: Leviticus 19:9 - ye reap the harvest Leviticus 23:22 - General Judges 15:4 - caught three

Cross-References

Genesis 2:2
By the seventh day God finished the work he had been doing, so he rested from all his work.

Genesis 2:8
Then the Lord God planted a garden in the east, in a place called Eden, and put the man he had formed into it.

Job 31:33
I have not hidden my sin as others do, secretly keeping my guilt to myself.

Psalms 128:2
You will enjoy what you work for, and you will be blessed with good things.

Ephesians 4:28
Those who are stealing must stop stealing and start working. They should earn an honest living for themselves. Then they will have something to share with those who are poor.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And when she was risen up to glean,.... After she had ate sufficiently, and refreshed herself, she rose up from her seat to go into the field and glean again; which shows her industry:

Boaz commanded his young men; the reapers, or who gathered the handfuls, and bound them up in sheaves:

saying, let her glean even among the sheaves; this she had requested of the reapers when she first came into the field, and it was granted her, Ruth 2:7 but this, as it was granted by Boaz himself, so was still a greater favour; and there is some difference in the expression, for it may be rendered here, "among those sheaves" h, pointing to a particular spot where might be the best ears of corn, and where more of them had fallen:

and reproach her not; as not with her being a poor woman, a widow, a Moabitish woman, so neither with being a thief, or taking such corn she should not, or gleaning where she ought not.

h בין העמרים "inter ipsos manipulos", Tigurine version, Rambachius.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ruth 2:15. Let her glean even among the sheaves — This was a privilege; for no person should glean till the sheaves were all bound, and the shocks set up.