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New Century Version

Ruth 3:6

So Ruth went down to the threshing floor and did all her mother-in-law told her to do.

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 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.
Darby Translation
And she went down to the floor, and did according to all that her mother-in-law had bidden 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 So Ruth went down to the threshing floor and did all her mother-in-law told her to do. 7 After his evening meal, Boaz felt good and went to sleep lying beside the pile of grain. Ruth went to him quietly and lifted the cover from his feet and lay down. 8 About midnight Boaz was startled and rolled over. There was a woman lying near his feet! 9 Boaz asked, "Who are you?" She said, "I am Ruth, your servant girl. Spread your cover over me, because you are a relative who is supposed to take care of me." 10 Then Boaz said, "The Lord bless you, my daughter. This act of kindness is greater than the kindness you showed to Naomi in the beginning. You didn't look for a young man to marry, either rich or poor. 11 Now, my daughter, don't be afraid. I will do everything you ask, because all the people in our town know you are a good woman. 12 It is true that I am a relative who is to take care of you, but you have a closer relative than I. 13 Stay here tonight, and in the morning we will see if he will take care of you. If he decides to take care of you, that is fine. But if he refuses, I will take care of you myself, as surely as the Lord lives. So stay here until 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
Now the snake was the most clever of all the wild animals the Lord God had made. One day the snake said to the woman, "Did God really say that you must not eat fruit from any tree in the garden?"
Genesis 3:2
The woman answered the snake, "We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden.
Genesis 3:12
The man said, "You gave this woman to me and she gave me fruit from the tree, so I ate it."
Genesis 3:14
The Lord God said to the snake, "Because you did this, a curse will be put on you. You will be cursed as no other animal, tame or wild, will ever be. You will crawl on your stomach, and you will eat dust all the days of your life.
Genesis 3:15
I will make you and the woman enemies to each other. Your descendants and her descendants will be enemies. One of her descendants will crush your head, and you will bite his heel."
Genesis 3:17
Then God said to the man, "You listened to what your wife said, and you ate fruit from the tree from which I commanded you not to eat. "So I will put a curse on the ground, and you will have to work very hard for your food. In pain you will eat its food all the days of your life.
Genesis 3:19
You will sweat and work hard for your food. Later you will return to the ground, because you were taken from it. You are dust, and when you die, you will return to the dust."
Genesis 6:2
When the sons of God saw that these girls were beautiful, they married any of them they chose.
Genesis 39:7
After some time the wife of Joseph's master began to desire Joseph, and one day she said to him, "Have sexual relations with me."
Joshua 7:21
Among the things I saw was a beautiful coat from Babylonia and about five pounds of silver and more than one and one-fourth pounds of gold. I wanted these things very much for myself, so I took them. You will find them buried in the ground under my tent, with the silver underneath."

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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