Ruth 2:11

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“Boaz replied, “I have been made fully aware of all you have done for your mother-in-law since the death of your husband, how you left your father and mother and the land of your birth, and how you came to a people you did not know before.”

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“Boaz replied, “I have been made fully aware of all you have done for your mother-in-law since the death of your husband, how you left your father and mother and the land of your birth, and how you came to a people you did not know before.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
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“And Boaz answered and said unto her, It hath fully been shewed me, all that thou hast done unto thy mother in law since the death of thine husband: and how thou hast left thy father and thy mother, and the land of thy nativity, and art come unto a people which thou knewest not heretofore.”

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ASVPD

“And Boaz answered and said unto her, It hath fully been showed me, all that thou hast done unto thy mother-in-law since the death of thy husband; and how thou hast left thy father and thy mother, and the land of thy nativity, and art come unto a people that thou knewest not heretofore.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“And Boaz answereth and saith to her, `It hath thoroughly been declared to me all that thou hast done with thy mother-in-law, after the death of thy husband, and thou dost leave thy father, and thy mother, and the land of thy birth, and dost come in unto a people which thou hast not known heretofore.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Ruth 2:11 — 13 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Ruth 1:11But Naomi replied, “Return home, my daughters. Why would you go with me? Are there still sons in my womb to become your husbands?
  2. Ruth 1:14Again they wept aloud, and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law goodbye, but Ruth clung to her.
  3. Ruth 1:16But Ruth replied: “Do not urge me to leave you or to turn from following you. For wherever you go, I will go, and wherever you live, I will live; your people will be my people, and your God will be my God.
  4. Ruth 3:10Then Boaz said, “May the LORD bless you, my daughter. You have shown more kindness now than before, because you have not run after the younger men, whether rich or poor.
  5. 2 Samuel 21:11When David was told what Saul’s concubine Rizpah, daughter of Aiah, had done,
  6. Psalms 37:5Commit your way to the LORD; trust in Him, and He will do it.
  7. Psalms 45:10Listen, O daughter! Consider and incline your ear: Forget your people and your father’s house,
  8. Luke 5:11And when they had brought their boats ashore, they left everything and followed Him.
  9. Luke 5:23Which is easier: to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Get up and walk?’
  10. Luke 14:33In the same way, any one of you who does not give up everything he has cannot be My disciple.
  11. Luke 18:29“Truly I tell you,” Jesus replied, “no one who has left home or wife or brothers or parents or children for the sake of the kingdom of God
  12. Hebrews 11:8By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, without knowing where he was going.
  13. Hebrews 11:24By faith Moses, when he was grown, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter.

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