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Ruth Meets Boaz

Ruth 2:2 “And Ruth the Moabitess said to Naomi, “Please let me go to the field and glean among the ears of grain after one in whose sight I may find favor.” And she said to her, “Go, my daughter.””

Deuteronomy 24:19 ““When you reap your harvest in your field and have forgotten a sheaf in the field, you shall not go back to get it; it shall be for the alien, for the orphan, and for the widow, in order that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.”

Ruth 2:3 “So she departed and went and gleaned in the field after the reapers; and she happened to come to the portion of the field belonging to Boaz, who was of the family of Elimelech.”

Judges and Ruth: An Introduction and Commentary a. The Field of Boaz (2:1–3)

Almost exactly the same expression is found in Ecclesiastes 2:14f. (‘one event happeneth’ to all men) and nowhere else in the Old Testament. It points to the truth that men do not control events, but that the hand of God is behind them as he works his purpose out

Ruth 2:6 “The servant in charge of the reapers replied, “She is the young Moabite woman who returned with Naomi from the land of Moab.”

New American Standard Bible: 1995 Update Chapter 2

10Then she fell on her face, bowing to the ground and said to him, “Why have I found favor in your sight that you should take notice of me, since I am a foreigner?”

EPHAH (אֵיפָה, eiphah). A dry measure equivalent to 3/8–2/3 of a bushel. Regarded as the standard (or common method) for measuring grain and similar articles

Deuteronomy 25:5–10 ““When brothers live together and one of them dies and has no son, the wife of the deceased shall not be married outside the family to a strange man. Her husband’s brother shall go in to her and take her to himself as wife and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her. “It shall be that the firstborn whom she bears shall assume the name of his dead brother, so that his name will not be blotted out from Israel. “But if the man does not desire to take his brother’s wife, then his brother’s wife shall go up to the gate to the elders and say, ‘My husband’s brother refuses to establish a name for his brother in Israel; he is not willing to perform the duty of a husband’s brother to me.’ “Then the elders of his city shall summon him and speak to him. And if he persists and says, ‘I do not desire to take her,’ then his brother’s wife shall come to him in the sight of the elders, and pull his sandal off his foot and spit in his face; and she shall declare, ‘Thus it is done to the man who d…”