Ruth 2:5

Myles Coverdale Bible

And Boos sayde vnto his yongman which had the ouersight of ye reapers. Whose damsell is this?

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?

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?"

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And Booz seide to the yong man that was souereyn to the reperis, Who is this damysel?

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 beholde, Boos came from Bethleem, and sayde vnto the reapers: The LORDE be with you. They answered: The LORDE blesse the. ⁵ And Boos sayde vnto his yongman which had the ouersight of ye reapers. Whose damsell is this? ⁶ The yonge man that was set ouer ye reapers, answered and sayde: It is the damsell the Moabitisse, which came agayne with Naemi from the londe of the Moabites. ⁷ And she sayde: Let me plucke vp and gather (I praie the) betwene the sheues after the reapers: and thus is she come, and hath stonde here euer sence the mornynge, and within a litle whyle she wolde haue bene gone home agayne. ⁸ Then sayde Boos vnto Ruth: Hearest thou my doughter? Thou shalt not come vpon another mans londe to gather, and go not awaye from hence, but tary with my dasels, ⁹ and loke where they reape in ye felde, go thou after them: for I haue comaunded my seruauntes that no man touch the. And yf thou be a thyrst, go thy waye to the vessell & drynke, where my seruauntes drawe. ¹⁰ Then fell she downe vpon hir face, and bowed hir self downe to the earth, and sayde vnto him: How haue I founde this fauoure in yi sighte, that thou woldest knowe me, which am yet a straunger? ¹¹ Boos answered and sayde vnto her: It is tolde me alltogether, what thou hast done vnto thy mother in lawe after thy hußbades death, how that thou hast left yi father and thy mother, and thy natiue countre, and art come to a people, whom thou hast not knowne afore. ¹² The LORDE recompence the thy doinge, and thy rewarde be parfecte wt the LORDE God of Israel, vnto whom thou art come to put thy trust vnder his wynges. ¹³ She sayde: let me fynde fauoure (syr) before thyne eyes, for thou hast comforted me, and spoken frendly vnto thy handmayde, where as I am not yet like one of yi handmaydes.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Ruth 4:21, 1 Chronicles 2:11, 1 Chronicles 2:12

Reciprocal: Ruth 4:13 - the Lord

Cross-References

Genesis 2:9
And the LORDE God caused to sprynge out of the earth all maner trees, pleasaut to loke vpo, and good to eate: and the tre of life in the myddest of the garden, and the tre of knowlege of good and euell.

Genesis 2:11
The first is called Phison, which renneth aboute all the londe of Heuyla.

Genesis 2:12
And there is founde golde, (& the golde of that countre is precious,) and there is founde Bedellion, and the precious stone Onix.

Genesis 3:23
Then the LORDE God put him out of the garden of Eden, to tyll ye earth, whece he was take.

Genesis 4:2
And she proceaded forth, & bare his brother Abell. And Abell became a shepherde, but Cain became an hußbande man.

Genesis 4:12
Whan thou tyllest ye grounde, she shall henßforth not geue hir power vnto the. A vagabunde and a rennagate shalt thou be vpon ye earth.

Job 5:10
Which geueth rayne vpo the earth, and poureth water vpon all thinges:

Psalms 104:14
Thou bryngest forth grasse for the catell, and grene herbe for the seruyce of men.

Psalms 135:7
He bryngeth forth the cloudes from the endes of the worlde, he turneth ye lighteniges vnto rayne, bringige the wyndes out of their treasuries.

Jeremiah 14:22
Are there eny amonge the goddes of the Gentiles, that sende rayne, or geue the showers of heauen? Dost not thou it o LORDE oure God, in who we trust? Yee LORDE, thou dost all these thinges.

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.