Ruth 2:5

Wycliffe Bible

And Booz seide to the yong man that was souereyn to the reperis, Who is this damysel?

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Boaz asked his servant who was in charge of the harvesters, “Whose young woman is this?”

Hebrew Names Version
Then said Bo`az to his servant who was set over the reapers, Whose young lady is this?

King James Version
Then said Boaz unto his servant that was set over the reapers, Whose damsel is this?

Lexham English Bible
And Boaz said to his servant in charge of the reapers, "To whom does this young woman belong?"

English Standard Version
Then Boaz said to his young man who was in charge of the reapers, "Whose young woman is this?"

New Century Version
Then Boaz asked his servant in charge of the workers, "Whose girl is that?"

New English Translation
Boaz asked his servant in charge of the harvesters, "To whom does this young woman belong?"

Amplified Bible
Then Boaz said to his servant who was in charge of the reapers, "Whose young woman is this?"

New American Standard Bible
Then Boaz said to his servant who was in charge of the reapers, "Whose young woman is this?"

Geneva Bible (1587)
Then saide Boaz vnto his seruant that was appointed ouer the reapers, Whose maide is this?

Legacy Standard Bible
Then Boaz said to his young man who was in charge of the reapers, "Whose young woman is this?"

Contemporary English Version
Then Boaz asked the man in charge of the harvest workers, "Who is that young woman?"

Complete Jewish Bible
Then Bo‘az asked his servant supervising the reapers, "Whose girl is this?"

Darby Translation
And Boaz said to his servant that was set over the reapers, Whose maiden is this?

Easy-to-Read Version
Then Boaz spoke to his servant who was in charge of the workers. He asked, "Whose girl is that?"

George Lamsa Translation
Then Boaz said to the young man who was in charge of the reapers, Whose damsel is this?

Good News Translation
Boaz asked the man in charge, "Who is that young woman?"

Literal Translation
And Boaz said to his young man who had been set over the reapers, Whose is this young woman?

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And Boos sayde vnto his yongman which had the ouersight of ye reapers. Whose damsell is this?

American Standard Version
Then said Boaz unto his servant that was set over the reapers, Whose damsel is this?

Bible in Basic English
Then Boaz said to his servant who was in authority over the cutters, Whose girl is this?

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Then sayde Booz vnto his young man that stode by the reapers? Whose damosel is this?

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Then said Boaz unto his servant that was set over the reapers: 'Whose damsel is this?'

King James Version (1611)
Then said Boaz vnto his seruant, that was set ouer the reapers, Whose damosell is this?

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And Booz said to his servant who was set over the reapers, Whose is this damsel?

English Revised Version
Then said Boaz unto his servant that was set over the reapers, Whose damsel is this? r

Berean Standard Bible
And Boaz asked the foreman of his harvesters, "Whose young woman is this?"

Young's Literal Translation
And Boaz saith to his young man who is set over the reapers, `Whose [is] this young person?'

Update Bible Version
Then Boaz said to his attendant that was set over the reapers, Whose damsel is this?

Webster's Bible Translation
Then said Boaz to his servant that was set over the reapers, Whose damsel [is] this?

World English Bible
Then said Boaz to his servant who was set over the reapers, Whose young lady is this?

New King James Version
Then Boaz said to his servant who was in charge of the reapers, "Whose young woman is this?"

New Living Translation
Then Boaz asked his foreman, "Who is that young woman over there? Who does she belong to?"

New Life Bible
Then Boaz said to his servant who was watching over those who gathered grain, "Whose young woman is this?"

New Revised Standard
Then Boaz said to his servant who was in charge of the reapers, "To whom does this young woman belong?"

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then said Boaz to his young man, that was set over the reapers, - Whose is this maiden?

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Booz said to the young man that was set over the reapers: Whose maid is this?

Revised Standard Version
Then Bo'az said to his servant who was in charge of the reapers, "Whose maiden is this?"

THE MESSAGE
Boaz asked his young servant who was foreman over the farm hands, "Who is this young woman? Where did she come from?"

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then Boaz said to his servant who was in charge of the reapers, "Whose young woman is this?"

Contextual Overview

⁴ And lo! he cam fro Bethleem. And he seide to the reperis, The Lord be with you. Whiche answeriden to hym, The Lord blesse thee. ⁵ And Booz seide to the yong man that was souereyn to the reperis, Who is this damysel? ⁶ Whiche answeride, This is the womman of Moab, that cam with Noemy fro the cuntrey of Moab; and sche preiede, ⁷ that sche schulde gedere eeris of corn leeuynge bihynde, and sue the `steppis of reperis; and fro the morewtid til now sche stondith in the feeld, and sotheli nethir at a moment sche turnede ayen hoom. <sup>8</sup> And Booz seide to Ruth, Douytir, here thou; go thou not in to anothir feelde to gadere, nether go awei fro this place, but be thou ioyned to my dameselis, <sup>9</sup> and sue thou where thei repen; for Y comaundide to my children, that `no man be diseseful to thee; but also if thou thirstist, go to the fardels, and drynke `watris, of whiche my children drynken. <sup>10</sup> And sche felde on hir face, and worschipide on the erthe; and seide to hym, Wherof is this to me, that Y schulde fynde grace bifor thin iyen, that thou woldist knowe me a straunge womman? <sup>11</sup> To whom he answeride, Alle thingis ben teld to me, whiche thou didist to thi modir in lawe after the deeth of thin hosebonde, and that thou hast forsake thi fadir and modir, and the lond `in which thou were borun, and hast come to a puple, whom thou `knowist not bifore. ¹² The Lord yelde to thee for thi werk, and resseyue thou ful mede of the Lord God of Israel, to whom thou camest, and vndir whose wengis thou fleddist. ¹³ And sche seide, My lord, Y haue founde grace bifor thin iyen, which hast coumfortid me, and hast spoke to the herte of thin handmaide, which am not lijk oon of thi damesels.

Bible Verse Review
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Ruth 4:21, 1 Chronicles 2:11, 1 Chronicles 2:12

Reciprocal: Ruth 4:13 - the Lord

Cross-References

Genesis 2:9
And the Lord God brouyte forth of the erthe ech tre fair in siyt, and swete to ete; also he brouyte forth the tre of lijf in the middis of paradis, and the tre of kunnyng of good and of yuel.

Genesis 2:11
The name of the o ryuer is Fyson, thilke it is that cumpassith al the lond of Euilath, where gold cometh forth,

Genesis 2:12
and the gold of that lond is the beste, and there is foundun delium, that is, a tree of spicerie, and the stoon onychyn;

Genesis 3:23
And the Lord God sente hym out of paradijs of likyng, that he schulde worche the erthe, of which he was takun.

Genesis 4:2
And efte sche childide his brother Abel. Forsothe Abel was a kepere of scheep, and Cayn was an erthe tilyere.

Genesis 4:12
Whanne thou schalt worche the erthe, it schal not yyue his fruytis to thee; thou schalt be vnstable of dwellyng and fleynge aboute on erthe in alle the daies of thi lijf.

Job 5:10
Which yyueth reyn on the face of erthe, and moistith alle thingis with watris.

Psalms 104:14
And thou bringist forth hei to beestis; and eerbe to the seruyce of men. That thou bringe forth breed of the erthe;

Psalms 135:7
He ledde out cloudis fro the ferthest part of erthe; and made leitis in to reyn. Which bringith forth wyndis fro hise tresours;

Jeremiah 14:22
Whether in grauun ymagis of hethene men ben thei that reynen, ethir heuenes moun yyue reynes? whether thou art not oure Lord God, whom we abididen? For thou madist alle these thingis.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then said Boaz unto his servant that was set over the reapers,.... To direct them their work, what part each was to do, and to see that they did it well; to take care for provisions for them, and to pay them their wages when their work was done. Josephus t calls him

αγροκομος, that had the care of the field, and all things relative to it; the Jews u say, he was set over two and forty persons, whom he had the command of:

whose damsel is this? to whom does she belong? of what family is she? whose daughter is she? or whose wife? for he thought, as Aben Ezra notes, that she was another man's wife; the Targum is, of what nation is she? perhaps her dress might be somewhat different from that of the Israelitish women.

t Antiqu. l. 5. c. 9. sect. 2. u Midrash Ruth, fol. 32. 1.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ruth 2:5. His servant that was set over the reapers — This was a kind of steward or hind who had the under management of the estate. Some think that an officer of this kind is intended in the description given by Homer of the labours of a harvest field, as represented by Vulcan on one compartment of the shield which he made for Achilles: -

Εν δ' ετιθει τεμενος βαθυληΐον· ενθα δ εριθοι

Ἡμων, οξειας δρεπανας εν χερσιν εχοντες·

Δραγματα δ' αλλα μετ' ογμον επμον επητριμα πιπτον εραζε,

Αλλα δ' αμαλλοδετηρες εν ελλεδανοισι δεοντο.

Τρεις δ' αρ' αμαλλοδετηρες εφεστασαν· αυταρ οπισθε

Παιδες δραγμευοντες, εν αγκαλιδεσσι φεροντες,

Ασπερχες παρεχον· βασιλευς δ' εν τοισι σιωπῃ

Σκηπτρον εχων ἑστηκει επ' ογμου γηθοσυνος κηρ.

Κηρυκες δ' απανευθεν ὑπο δρυΐ δαιτα πενοντο·

Βουν δ' ἱερευσαντες μεγαν, αμφεπον· αἱ δε γυναικες

Δειπνον εριθοισιν, λευκ' αλφιτα πολλα παλυνον.

Iliad xviii., v. 550.

There too he form'd the likeness of a field

Crowded with corn, in which the reapers toil'd,

Each with a sharp-tooth'd sickle in his hand.

Along the furrow here, the harvest fell

In frequent handfuls; there, they bound the sheaves.

Three binders of the sheaves their sultry task

All plied industrious, and behind them boys

Attended, filling with the corn their arms,

And offering still their bundles to be bound.

Amid them, staff in hand, the master stood,

Enjoying, mute the order of the field:

While, shaded by an oak, apart his train

Prepared the banquet - a well thriven ox

New slain, and the attendant maidens mix'd

Large supper for the hinds, of whitest flour.

COWPER.

This scene is well described; and the person who acts as overseer is here called βασιλευς, king, and his staff is called σκηπτρον, a sceptre; and he stands in mute dignity, merely to see that the work is well done, and that each person performs his task; and there appear to me to be gleaners in the description, viz., the boys who gather the handfuls after the three binders. See the Greek.