Ruth 2:22
Good News Translation
Naomi said to Ruth, "Yes, daughter, it will be better for you to work with the women in Boaz' field. You might be molested if you went to someone else's field."

New Revised Standard Version
Naomi said to Ruth, her daughter-in-law, “It is better, my daughter, that you go out with his young women, otherwise you might be bothered in another field.”

Contemporary English Version
Naomi replied, "My daughter, it's good that you can pick up grain alongside the women who work in his field. Who knows what might happen to you in someone else's field!"

New American Bible
“You would do well, my daughter,” Naomi rejoined, “to work with his young women; in someone else’s field you might be insulted.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And her mother in law said to her: It is better for thee, my daughter, to go out to reap with his maids, lest in another man's field some one may resist thee.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And her mother in law said to her: It is better for thee, my daughter, to go out to reap with his maids, lest in another man's field some one may resist thee.

Ruth 2:8,22,23 And Booz said to Ruth: Hear me, daughter, do not go to glean in any other field, and do not depart from this place: but keep with my maids, . . .

Context
Boaz Meets Ruth
21And Ruth said: He also charged me, that I should keep close to his reapers, till all the corn should be reaped. 22And her mother in law said to her: It is better for thee, my daughter, to go out to reap with his maids, lest in another man's field some one may resist thee.23So she kept close to the maids of Booz: and continued to glean with them, till all the barley and the wheat were laid up in the barns.…
Cross References
Mark 14:66
Now when Peter was in the court below, there cometh one of the maidservants of the high priest.

Ruth 2:21
And Ruth said: He also charged me, that I should keep close to his reapers, till all the corn should be reaped.

Ruth 2:23
So she kept close to the maids of Booz: and continued to glean with them, till all the barley and the wheat were laid up in the barns.

Ruth 2:21
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