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Ruth 3:6

So she went down to the grain-floor and did all her mother-in-law had said to her.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Chastity;   Continence;   Inheritance;   Ruth;   Threshing;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Entertainments;  

Dictionaries:

- Holman Bible Dictionary - Economic Life;   Ruth;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
She went down to the threshing floor and did everything her mother-in-law had charged her to do.
Hebrew Names Version
She went down to the threshing floor, and did according to all that her mother-in-law bade her.
King James Version
And she went down unto the floor, and did according to all that her mother in law bade her.
Lexham English Bible
And she went down to the threshing floor and did all that her mother-in-law had instructed her.
English Standard Version
So she went down to the threshing floor and did just as her mother-in-law had commanded her.
New Century Version
So Ruth went down to the threshing floor and did all her mother-in-law told her to do.
New English Translation
So she went down to the threshing floor and did everything her mother-in-law had instructed her to do.
Amplified Bible
So she went down to the threshing floor and did just as her mother-in-law had told her.
New American Standard Bible
So she went down to the threshing floor and did according to all that her mother-in-law had commanded her.
Geneva Bible (1587)
So she went downe vnto the floore, and did according to all that her mother in lawe bade her.
Legacy Standard Bible
So she went down to the threshing floor and did according to all that her mother-in-law had commanded her.
Contemporary English Version
She went out to the place where Boaz was working and did what Naomi had told her.
Complete Jewish Bible
She went down to the threshing-floor and did everything as her mother-in-law had instructed her.
Darby Translation
And she went down to the floor, and did according to all that her mother-in-law had bidden her.
Easy-to-Read Version
So Ruth went down to the threshing floor and did everything that her mother-in-law told her to do.
George Lamsa Translation
So she went down to the threshing floor, and did according to all that her mother-in-law had told her.
Good News Translation
So Ruth went to the threshing place and did just what her mother-in-law had told her.
Literal Translation
And she went down to the threshing floor and did according to all that her mother-in-law commanded her.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
She wente downe to the barne, & dyd all as hir mother in lawe had comaunded her.
American Standard Version
And she went down unto the threshing-floor, and did according to all that her mother-in-law bade her.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And she went downe vnto the floore, and dyd according to al that her mother in lawe bad her.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And she went down unto the threshing-floor, and did according to all that her mother-in-law bade her.
King James Version (1611)
And she went downe vnto the floore, and did according to all that her mother in law bade her.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And she went down to the threshing-floor, and did according to all that her mother-in-law enjoined her.
English Revised Version
And she went down unto the threshing-floor, and did according to all that her mother in law bade her.
Berean Standard Bible
So she went down to the threshing floor and did everything her mother-in-law had instructed her.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And sche yede doun in to the corn floor, and dide alle thingis whiche hir modir in lawe comaundide to hir.
Young's Literal Translation
And she goeth down [to] the threshing-floor, and doth according to all that her mother-in-law commanded her
Update Bible Version
And she went down to the threshing-floor, and did according to all that her mother-in-law bade her.
Webster's Bible Translation
And she went down to the floor, and did according to all that her mother-in-law bade her.
World English Bible
She went down to the threshing floor, and did according to all that her mother-in-law bade her.
New King James Version
So she went down to the threshing floor and did according to all that her mother-in-law instructed her.
New Living Translation
So she went down to the threshing floor that night and followed the instructions of her mother-in-law.
New Life Bible
So Ruth went down to the grain-floor and did all her mother-in-law had told her to do.
New Revised Standard
So she went down to the threshing floor and did just as her mother-in-law had instructed her.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
So she went down to the threshing-floor, - and did according to all that her mother-in-law had commanded her.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And she went down to the barnfloor, and did all that her mother in law had bid her.
Revised Standard Version
So she went down to the threshing floor and did just as her mother-in-law had told her.
THE MESSAGE
She went down to the threshing floor and put her mother-in-law's plan into action.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
So she went down to the threshing floor and did according to all that her mother-in-law had commanded her.

Contextual Overview

6 So she went down to the grain-floor and did all her mother-in-law had said to her. 7 Now when Boaz had taken meat and drink, and his heart was glad, he went to take his rest at the end of the mass of grain; then she came softly and, uncovering his feet, went to rest. 8 Now in the middle of the night, the man awaking from his sleep in fear, and lifting himself up, saw a woman stretched at his feet. 9 And he said, Who are you? And she answering said, I am your servant Ruth: take your servant as wife, for you are a near relation. 10 And he said, May the Lord give you his blessing, my daughter: even better than what you did at the first is this last kind act you have done, in not going after young men, with or without wealth. 11 And now, my daughter, have no fear; I will do for you whatever you say: for it is clear to all my townspeople that you are a woman of virtue. 12 Now it is true that I am a near relation: but there is a relation nearer than I. 13 Take your rest here tonight; and in the morning, if he will do for you what it is right for a relation to do, very well, let him do so: but if he will not, then by the living Lord I myself will do so.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

and did: Exodus 20:12, Proverbs 1:8, John 2:5, John 15:14

Cross-References

Genesis 3:1
Now the snake was wiser than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman, Has God truly said that you may not take of the fruit of any tree in the garden?
Genesis 3:2
And the woman said, We may take of the fruit of the trees in the garden:
Genesis 3:12
And the man said, The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me the fruit of the tree and I took it.
Genesis 3:14
And the Lord God said to the snake, Because you have done this you are cursed more than all cattle and every beast of the field; you will go flat on the earth, and dust will be your food all the days of your life:
Genesis 3:15
And there will be war between you and the woman and between your seed and her seed: by him will your head be crushed and by you his foot will be wounded.
Genesis 3:17
And to Adam he said, Because you gave ear to the voice of your wife and took of the fruit of the tree which I said you were not to take, the earth is cursed on your account; in pain you will get your food from it all your life.
Genesis 3:19
With the hard work of your hands you will get your bread till you go back to the earth from which you were taken: for dust you are and to the dust you will go back.
Genesis 6:2
The sons of God saw that the daughters of men were fair; and they took wives for themselves from those who were pleasing to them.
Genesis 39:7
And after a time, his master's wife, looking on Joseph with desire, said to him, Be my lover.
Joshua 7:21
When I saw among their goods a fair robe of Babylon and two hundred shekels of silver, and a mass of gold, fifty shekels in weight, I was overcome by desire and took them; and they are put away in the earth in my tent, and the silver is under it.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And she went down unto the floor,.... From the city of Bethlehem, from her mother-in-law's house there, to the threshingfloor of Boaz, which was at some distance from it, and lower:

and did according to all that her mother in law bade her; both before she went, and after: she washed and anointed herself, and put on her best clothes before she went down, and when she was there took care not to make herself known to any, especially to Boaz, and marked the place where he lay down after he had supped.


 
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