Ruth 2:23
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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.

Proverbs 6:6-8 Which, although she hath no guide, nor master, nor captain, . . .

Proverbs 13:1,20 A wise son heareth the doctrine of his father: but he that is a scorner, heareth not when he is reproved. . . .

1 Corinthians 15:33 Be not seduced: Evil communications corrupt good manners.

Ephesians 6:1-3 Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is just. . . .

Context
Boaz Meets Ruth
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.

Exodus 9:31
The flax therefore, and the barley were hurt, because the barley was green, and the flax was now bolled;

Deuteronomy 16:9
Thou shalt number unto thee seven weeks from that day, wherein thou didst put the sickle to the corn.

Ruth 2:22
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 3:1
After she was returned to her mother in law, Noemi said to her: My daughter, I will seek rest for thee, and will provide that it may be well with thee.

Lexicon
So Ruth stayed close
וַתִּדְבַּ֞ק (wat·tiḏ·baq)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1692: To impinge, cling, adhere, to catch by pursuit

to the servant girls
בְּנַעֲר֥וֹת (bə·na·‘ă·rō·wṯ)
Preposition-b | Noun - feminine plural construct
Strong's Hebrew 5291: A girl, maiden

of Boaz
בֹּ֙עַז֙ (bō·‘az)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1162: Boaz -- 'quickness', an ancestor of David, also a pillar before the temple

to glean
לְלַקֵּ֔ט (lə·laq·qêṭ)
Preposition-l | Verb - Piel - Infinitive construct
Strong's Hebrew 3950: To pick up, to gather, to glean

grain until
עַד־ (‘aḏ-)
Preposition
Strong's Hebrew 5704: As far as, even to, up to, until, while

the barley
הַשְּׂעֹרִ֖ים (haś·śə·‘ō·rîm)
Article | Noun - feminine plural
Strong's Hebrew 8184: Barley

and wheat
הַֽחִטִּ֑ים (ha·ḥiṭ·ṭîm)
Article | Noun - feminine plural
Strong's Hebrew 2406: Wheat

harvests
קְצִֽיר־ (qə·ṣîr-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 7105: Severed, harvest, the crop, the time, the reaper, a limb

were finished.
כְּל֥וֹת (kə·lō·wṯ)
Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Strong's Hebrew 3615: To be complete, at an end, finished, accomplished, or spent

And she lived
וַתֵּ֖שֶׁב (wat·tê·šeḇ)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3427: To sit down, to dwell, to remain, to settle, to marry

with
אֶת־ (’eṯ-)
Preposition
Strong's Hebrew 854: Nearness, near, with, by, at, among

her mother-in-law.
חֲמוֹתָֽהּ׃ (ḥă·mō·w·ṯāh)
Noun - feminine singular construct | third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2545: Husband's mother


Additional Translations
So Ruth stayed close to the servant girls of Boaz to glean grain until the barley and wheat harvests were finished. And she lived with her mother-in-law.So she kept fast by the maidens of Boaz to glean to the end of barley harvest and of wheat harvest; and dwelled with her mother in law.

So she kept fast by the maidens of Boaz, to glean unto the end of barley harvest and of wheat harvest; and she dwelt with her mother-in-law.

And Ruth joined herself to the damsels of Booz to glean until they had finished the barley-harvest and the wheat-harvest.

So she kept with the maidens of Boaz to glean, until the end of the barley-harvest and of the wheat-harvest. And she dwelt with her mother-in-law.

So she kept fast by the maidens of Boaz to glean unto the end of barley harvest and of wheat harvest; and she dwelt with her mother in law.

So she kept fast by the maidens of Boaz to glean to the end of barley-harvest and of wheat-harvest; and dwelt with her mother-in-law.

So she stayed close to the maidens of Boaz, to glean to the end of barley harvest and of wheat harvest; and she lived with her mother-in-law.

And she cleaveth to the young women of Boaz to glean, till the completion of the barley-harvest, and of the wheat-harvest, and she dwelleth with her mother-in-law.
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