Ruth 2:21
And Ruth the Moabitess said, He said unto me also, Thou shalt keep fast by my young men, until they have ended all my harvest. And Ruth the Moabitess said, He said unto me also, Thou shalt keep fast by my young men, until they have ended all my harvest.
Ruth 2:21 belongs to the beautiful, brief pastoral tale of Ruth from the time of the judges, a story that brings in a Moabite woman and ends with the ancestry of the Lord Jesus. It places Ruth in the harvest field of Boaz, where she reports that she was told to stay close by his workers until they had finished all the harvest. The workers described as young men include young people generally, particularly maidens, so the instruction means that Ruth was to stay with the young women as well. The harvest there is the cutting of grain and the gathering of it into sheaves.