Ruth 2:21

2:21 Ruth the Moabite replied, “He even82 told me, ‘You may go along beside my servants83 until they have finished gathering all my harvest!’ ”84

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82	tn On the force of the phrase גָּם כִּי (gam ki) here, see F. W. Bush, Ruth, Esther (WBC), 138–39.
83	tn Heb “with the servants who are mine you may stay close.” The imperfect has a permissive nuance here. The word “servants” is masculine plural.
84	tn Heb “until they have finished all the harvest which is mine”; NIV “until they finish harvesting all my grain.”