Ruth - 2:6



6 The servant who was set over the reapers answered, "It is the Moabite lady who came back with Naomi out of the country of Moab.

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Explanation and meaning of Ruth 2:6.

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And the servant that was set over the reapers answered and said, It is the Moabitish damsel that came back with Naomi out of the country of Moab:
And he answered him: This is the Moabitess who came with Noemi, from the land of Moab,
And the servant that was set over the reapers answered and said, It is the Moabitish maiden who came back with Naomi out of the fields of Moab;
And the young man who is set over the reapers answereth and saith, 'A young woman, Moabitess, she is, who came back with Naomi from the fields of Moab,
And the servant who was in authority over the cutters said, It is a Moabite girl who came back with Naomi out of the country of Moab;
And the servant that was set over the reapers answered and said: 'It is a Moabitish damsel that came back with Naomi out of the field of Moab;
He answered him, "This is the Moabite woman, who came with Naomi, from the land of the Moabites,

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And the servant that was set over the reapers answered and said,.... Who had taken a great deal of notice of Ruth, and had conversed with her, and so was capable of giving answers to his master's question:
it is the Moabitish damsel that came back with Naomi, out of the country of Moab; perhaps he had not got knowledge of her name, and therefore only describes her by the country from whence she came; and by her coming from thence along with Naomi, when she returned from Moab, with whose name Boaz was well acquainted, and of whose return he had been informed; and perhaps had seen her in person, and even Ruth also, though he might have forgot her; the Targum makes the servant to add, that she was become a proselytess.

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