Ruth 2:16 (WEB)

Passage

Also pull out some for her from the bundles, and leave it. Let her glean, and don’t rebuke her.”

Nearby Context

Ruth 2:14 At meal time Boaz said to her, “Come here, and eat some bread, and dip your morsel in the vinegar.” She sat beside the reapers, and they passed her parched grain, and she ate, and was satisfied, and left some of it.

Ruth 2:15 When she had risen up to glean, Boaz commanded his young men, saying, “Let her glean even among the sheaves, and don’t reproach her.

Ruth 2:16 Also pull out some for her from the bundles, and leave it. Let her glean, and don’t rebuke her.”

Ruth 2:17 So she gleaned in the field until evening; and she beat out that which she had gleaned, and it was about an ephah of barley.

Ruth 2:18 She took it up, and went into the city. Then her mother-in-law saw what she had gleaned; and she brought out and gave to her that which she had left after she had enough.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "pull", "some", "bundles", "leave", "glean", and "rebuke". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "pull" and "some", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 15's "When she had risen up to glean..." into verse 17's "So she gleaned in the field until...", so "pull" and "some" belong inside that flow. In Ruth context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "pull" and "some" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.