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Ruth 2:5
And Boaz saith to his young man who is set over the reapers, `Whose is this young person?'
Ruth 2:5 · Young's Literal Translation
Ruth 2:5 in other translations
Then said Boaz unto his servant that was set over the reapers, Whose damsel is this?
And Boaz asked the foreman of his harvesters, “Whose young woman is this?”
Then Boaz said to his servant who was set over the reapers, “Whose young lady is this?”
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In context
2 And Ruth the Moabitess saith unto Naomi, `Let me go, I pray thee, into the field, and I gather among the ears of corn after him in whose eyes I find grace;' and she saith to her, `Go, my daughter.'
3 And she goeth and cometh and gathereth in a field after the reapers, and her chance happeneth--the portion of the field is Boaz's who is of the family of Elimelech.
4 And lo, Boaz hath come from Beth-Lehem, and saith to the reapers, `Jehovah is with you;' and they say to him, `Jehovah doth bless thee.'
5 And Boaz saith to his young man who is set over the reapers, `Whose is this young person?'
6 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,
7 and she saith, Let me glean, I pray thee--and I have gathered among the sheaves after the reapers; and she cometh and remaineth since the morning and till now; she sat in the house a little.
8 And Boaz saith unto Ruth, `Hast thou not heard, my daughter? go not to glean in another field, and also, pass not over from this, and thus thou dost cleave to my young women:
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