URute 2:21

Izhibhalo Ezingcwele

21 Wathi uRute umMowabhikazi, Kananjalo ithe yona kum, Uze unamathele kulutsha olulolwam, lude lulugqibe lonke uvuno olulolwam.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Thou shalt: Ruth 2:7, Ruth 2:8, Ruth 2:22, Song of Solomon 1:7, Song of Solomon 1:8

young men: The word hannearim should be translated the servants; both male and female being included in it, the latter especially - see note on Ruth 2:8, see note on Ruth 2:22, and see note on Ruth 2:23.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Ruth the Moabitess said, he said unto me also,.... Besides the favours he has shown me already, he has given me reason to expect more, for he has given me this strict order:

thou shalt keep fast by my young men, until they have ended all my harvest; both barley harvest and wheat harvest; his will was, that she kept following them, and gleaned after them, as long as both harvests lasted. The Septuagint version is, "with my maidens", and which agrees with Ruth 2:8, where the order of Boaz is expressed, and with the instructions of Naomi in the next verse, who so understood it; but if we understand it of young men here, there is no contradiction; for both young men and maidens wrought together in the same field, either in reaping or binding up; so that if she kept fast by the one, she also would do the same by the other.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ruth 2:21. Keep fast by my young men — The word הנערים hannearim should be translated servants, both the male and female being included in it; the latter especially, as we see in Ruth 2:22-23.