5 occurrences

'Glean' in the Bible

And Ruth the Moabitess said to Naomi, “Please let me go to the field and glean among the ears of grain after one [of the reapers] in whose sight I may find favor.” Naomi said to her, “Go, my daughter.”

Verse ConceptsGleaning

And she said, ‘Please let me glean and gather after the reapers among the sheaves.’ So she came and has continued [gathering grain] from early morning until now, except when she sat [resting] for a little while in the [field] house.”

Verse ConceptsMorningNoonGleaningThose Who Toiled

Then Boaz said to Ruth, “Listen carefully, my daughter. Do not go to glean in another field or leave this one, but stay here close by my maids.

Verse ConceptsLiving Together

When she got up to glean, Boaz ordered his servants, “Let her glean even among the sheaves, and do not insult her.

Also you shall purposely pull out for her some stalks [of grain] from the sheaves and leave them so that she may collect them, and do not rebuke her.”

Verse ConceptsBinding cornPlucking Out

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