Ruth Gleans Wheat While Boaz's Servants Watchby AbiQueenie7

Ruth 2:6

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:

The servant's answer names the gleaner as the Moabitish damsel who came back with Naomi out of the country of Moab. The setting is the harvest field of Boaz, where gleaners gathered the grain with sickles by hand, showing the slow hand-worked harvesting of earlier times in contrast to modern harvesting machines. She went into the field and meadow to glean the scattered sheaves, gathering up what others had missed and left behind. In this she stands as an example of humble, useful, and diligent service. Her example encourages humble, diligent work even when the labor is difficult or lonely.