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The Darby Translation

Ruth 3:6

And she went down to the floor, and did according to all that her mother-in-law had bidden 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.
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.
Bible in Basic English
So she went down to the grain-floor and did all her mother-in-law had said to 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 And she went down to the floor, and did according to all that her mother-in-law had bidden her. 7 And Boaz ate and drank, and his heart was merry, and he went to lie down at the end of the heap of corn. Then she went softly, and uncovered his feet, and laid herself down. 8 And it came to pass at midnight, that the man was startled, and turned himself; and behold, a woman lay at his feet. 9 And he said, Who art thou? And she answered, I am Ruth, thy handmaid: spread thy skirt over thy handmaid; for thou hast the right of redemption. 10 And he said, Blessed be thou of Jehovah, my daughter! Thou hast shewn more kindness at the end than at the first, inasmuch as thou followedst not young men, whether poor or rich. 11 And now, my daughter, fear not: all that thou sayest will I do to thee; for all the gate of my people knows that thou art a woman of worth. 12 And now, truly I am one that has the right of redemption, yet there is one that has the right of redemption who is nearer than I. 13 Stay over to-night, and it shall be in the morning, if he will redeem thee, well—let him redeem; but if he like not to redeem thee, then will I redeem thee, [as] Jehovah liveth. Lie down until the morning.

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
And the serpent was more crafty than any animal of the field which Jehovah Elohim had made. And it said to the woman, Is it even so, that God has said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
Genesis 3:2
And the woman said to the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden;
Genesis 3:12
And Man said, The woman, whom thou hast given [to be] with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate.
Genesis 3:14
And Jehovah Elohim said to the serpent, Because thou hast done this, be thou cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field. On thy belly shalt thou go, and eat dust all the days of thy life.
Genesis 3:15
And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; he shall crush thy head, and thou shalt crush his heel.
Genesis 3:17
And to Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and eaten of the tree of which I commanded thee saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed be the ground on thy account; with toil shalt thou eat [of] it all the days of thy life;
Genesis 3:19
In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, until thou return to the ground: for out of it wast thou taken. For dust thou art; and unto dust shalt thou return.
Genesis 6:2
that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair, and took themselves wives of all that they chose.
Genesis 39:7
And it came to pass after these things, that his master's wife cast her eyes on Joseph, and said, Lie with me!
Joshua 7:21
I saw among the spoils a beautiful mantle of Shinar, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a golden bar of fifty shekels weight, and I coveted them and took them; and behold, they are hid in the earth in the midst of my tent, and the silver 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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