Ruth 2:9
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Let your eyes be on the field they are harvesting, and follow along after these girls. Indeed, I have ordered the young men not to touch you. And when you are thirsty, go and drink from the jars the young men have filled.””
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“Let your eyes be on the field they are harvesting, and follow along after these girls. Indeed, I have ordered the young men not to touch you. And when you are thirsty, go and drink from the jars the young men have filled.””
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Let thine eyes be on the field that they do reap, and go thou after them: have I not charged the young men that they shall not touch thee? and when thou art athirst, go unto the vessels, and drink of that which the young men have drawn.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Let thine eyes be on the field that they do reap, and go thou after them: have I not charged the young men that they shall not touch thee? and when thou art athirst, go unto the vessels, and drink of that which the young men have drawn.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“thine eyes <FI>are<Fi> on the field which they reap, and thou hast gone after them; have not I charged the young men not to touch thee? when thou art athirst then thou hast gone unto the vessels, and hast drunk from that which the young men draw.'”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Ruth 2:9 — 9 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 20:6Then God said to Abimelech in the dream, “Yes, I know that you did this with a clear conscience, and so I have kept you from sinning against Me. That is why I did not let you touch her.
- Genesis 24:18“Drink, my lord,” she replied, and she quickly lowered her jar to her hands and gave him a drink.
- Job 19:21Have pity on me, my friends, have pity, for the hand of God has struck me.
- Psalms 105:15“Do not touch My anointed ones! Do no harm to My prophets!”
- Proverbs 6:29So is he who sleeps with another man’s wife; no one who touches her will go unpunished.
- Matthew 10:42And if anyone gives even a cup of cold water to one of these little ones because he is My disciple, truly I tell you, he will never lose his reward.”
- John 4:7When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, “Give Me a drink.”
- 1 Corinthians 7:1Now for the matters you wrote about: It is good to abstain from sexual relations.
- 1 John 5:18We know that anyone born of God does not keep on sinning; the One who was born of God protects him, and the evil one cannot touch him.
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