John Gill's Exposition on Ruth 2:15

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John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And when she was risen up to glean, etc.] 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, (<080207>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” f48, 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.

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