The servant who was set over the reapers answered, It is the Moabite lady who came back with Naomi out of the country of Moab:
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The servant who was set over the reapers answered, It is the Moabite lady who came back with Naomi out of the country of Moab:
And the servant that was set over the reapers answered and said, It is the Moabitish damsel that came back with Naomi out of the country of Moab:
Then the servant who was set over the reapers answered and said, “She is a young Moabite woman, the woman who came back with Naomi from the land of Moab.
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The servant who was set over the reapers answered, It is the Moabite lady who came back with Naomi out of the country of Moab:
The foreman answered, “She is the Moabitess who returned with Naomi from the land of Moab.
The foreman answered, “She is the Moabitess who returned with Naomi from the land of Moab.
And the servant that was set over the reapers answered and said, It is the Moabitish damsel that came back with Naomi out of the country of Moab:
And the servant that was set over the reapers answered and said, It is the Moabitish damsel that came back with Naomi out of the country of Moab:
And the servant that was set over the reapers answered and said, It is the Moabitish damsel that came back with Naomi out of the country of Moab:
And the seruant that was appointed ouer the reapers, answered, and said, It is the Moabitish maide, that came with Naomi out of the countrey of Moab:
And he answered him: This is the Moabitess who came with Noemi, from the land of Moab,
And the young man who is set over the reapers answereth and saith, `A young woman -- Moabitess -- she `is', who came back with Naomi from the fields of Moab,
And the young man who is set over the reapers answers and says, “A young woman—Moabitess—she [is], who came back with Naomi from the fields of Moab,
The servant supervising the reapers answered and said, “It is the young Moabite woman who came back with Naomi from the land of Moab.
Then the servant who was set over the reapers answered and said, “She is a young Moabite woman, the woman who came back with Naomi from the land of Moab.
And the servant that was set over the reapers answered and said, It is the Moabitish maiden who came back with Naomi out of the fields of Moab;
The servant who was set over the reapers answered, “It is the Moabite lady who came back with Naomi out of the country of Moab.
And the servant that was set over the reapers answered and said, It is the Moabitish damsel that came back with Naomi from the country of Moab:
“The young woman is a Moabite who came back with Naomi from Moab,” the servant replied.
And the servant who was in authority over the cutters said, It is a Moabite girl who came back with Naomi out of the country of Moab;
And the servant that was set over the reapers answered and said: 'It is a Moabitish damsel that came back with Naomi out of the field of Moab;
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Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is מֽוֹאֲבִיָּה֙ Moabite H4125 — appearing just 16 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
מֽוֹאֲבִיָּה֙ Moabite H4125 occurs in 16 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
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Verb forms
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 25 words from the Hebrew and 27 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.
A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.
Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.
In the original languages it is 14 Hebrew tokens and 23 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.
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The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.
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וַיַּ֗עַן הַנַּ֛עַר הַנִּצָּ֥ב עַל הַקּוֹצְרִ֖ים וַיֹּאמַ֑ר נַעֲרָ֤ה מֽוֹאֲבִיָּה֙ הִ֔יא הַשָּׁ֥בָה עִֽם נָעֳמִ֖י מִשְּׂדֵ֥ה מוֹאָֽב
The servant who was set over the reapers answered, It is the Moabite lady who came back with Naomi out of the country of Moab:
World English Bible · Public Domain
καί ἀποκρίνω ὁ παιδάριον ὁ ἐπιἵστημι ἐπί ὁ θερίζω καί εἶπον ὁ παῖς ὁ μωαβῖτις εἰμί ὁ ἀποστρέφω μετά νωεμιν ἐκ ἀγρός μωαβ
And his servant who was set over the reapers answered and said, It is the Moabitish damsel who returned with Noemin out of the land of Moab.
LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain
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Ruth, in the Historical, opens this verse with 14 words (14 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Môwʼâbîy (“Moabite”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on Ruth 2:6 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.
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Trapp's Complete Commentary
John Trapp
John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers
A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
John Gill's Exposition
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
Matthew Poole's English Annotations
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
Whedon's Commentary on the Bible
Daniel D. Whedon
Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
The Pulpit Commentary
The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Rashi
Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)
Rashi on the Tanakh — English translations: “The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg” (CC BY 4.0); “Pentateuch with Rashi's commentary by M. Rosenbaum and A.M. Silbermann, 1929-1934” (public domain); “The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J” (CC BY 4.0); and “The Book of Joshua, Metsudah Publications, 1997” (CC BY 4.0). Text via Sefaria.