Keep your eyes on whatever field they are reaping and follow behind them. I have told the young men not to touch you. And when you are thirsty, go to the water jars and drink from what they have drawn.”
In context
7She asked, ‘Let me gather grain among the sheaves, behind the reapers,’ and she has been on her feet since morning, with hardly a moment’s rest.” 8Boaz said to Ruth, “Listen, my daughter — do not gather grain in any other field, and do not go anywhere else. Stay close to my young women. 9Keep your eyes on whatever field they are reaping and follow behind them. I have told the young men not to touch you. And when you are thirsty, go to the water jars and drink from what they have drawn.” 10She bowed low, her face to the ground, and said to him, “Why have I found such favor in your eyes, that you notice me — a foreigner?” 11Boaz answered her, “I have been told everything you have done for your mother-in-law since your husband died — how you left your father and mother and the land of your birth, and came to a people you did not know before.
