²Isn’t Boaz, whose young women you’ve been working with, our relative? He will be separating the barley from its husks on the threshing floor^atonight.

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a 3:2 A threshing floor is an outdoor area where grain is separated from its husks.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

Is not Boaz our relative, with whose young women you were? See, he is winnowing barley tonight at the threshing floor.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

Now Boaz, with whose women you have worked, is a relative of ours. Tonight he will be winnowing barley on the threshing floor.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Now isn’t Boaz our relative? Haven’t you been working with his female servants? This evening he will be winnowing barley on the threshing floor.

NLTNew Living Translation

Boaz is a close relative of ours, and he’s been very kind by letting you gather grain with his young women. Tonight he will be winnowing barley at the threshing floor.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

So then, is not Boaz our kinsman whose maidservants you were with? Look, he is winnowing the barley at the threshing floor tonight.

KJV 1900King James Version

And now is not Boaz of our kindred, with whose maidens thou wast? Behold, he winnoweth barley to night in the threshingfloor.

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