Acquaintance Barley Behold Boaz Bo'az Floor Girls Grain Grain-floor Hast Isn't Kindred Kinsman Maidens Maids Ours Relation Separating Servant Threshing Threshingfloor Threshing-floor Tonight To-night Wast Waste Winnoweth Winnowing Winnows Women
3:2 Threshing - floor - Which was in a place covered at the top, but open elsewhere, whither Ruth might easily come. And this work of winnowing corn was usually ended with a feast.
3:1-5 The married state should be a rest, as much as any thing upon earth can be so, as it ought to fix the affections and form a connexion for life. Therefore it should be engaged in with great seriousness, with earnest prayers for direction, for the blessing of God, and with regard to his precepts. Parents should carefully advise their children in this important concern, that it may be well with them as to their souls. Be it always remembered, That is best for us which is best for our souls. The course Naomi advised appears strange to us; but it was according to the laws and usages of Israel. If the proposed measure had borne the appearance of evil, Naomi would not have advised it. Law and custom gave Ruth, who was now proselyted to the true religion, a legal claim upon Boaz. It was customary for widows to assert this claim, De 25:5-10. But this is not recorded for imitation in other times, and is not to be judged by modern rules. And if there had been any evil in it, Ruth was a woman of too much virtue and too much sense to have listened to it.
Acquaintance Barley Boaz Kindred Kinsman Maidens Maids Night Relation Separating Servant Threshing Threshingfloor Threshing-Floor Tonight To-Night Wast Winnoweth Winnows
Acquaintance Barley Boaz Kindred Kinsman Maidens Maids Night Relation Separating Servant Threshing Threshingfloor Threshing-Floor Tonight To-Night Wast Winnoweth Winnows
