Ruth 2:16
And let fall also some of the handfuls of purpose for her, and leave them, that she may glean them, and rebuke her not.
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Gill's Exposition
And let fall some of the handfuls on purpose for her,.... That is, when they had reaped an handful, instead of laying it in its proper order, to be taken up by those that gathered after them, or by…
Now Boaz himself appears, and a great deal of decency there appears in his carriage both towards his own servants and towards this poor stranger.
I. Towards his own servants, and those that were…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
the bundles Only here; in Assyr. the root (ṣabâtu) means -to grasp"; in the Mishnah and Jewish Aram., -to bind."
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