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An Intertextuality Pair — one connection between two passages, shown as linked verse cards: the Later text and the Earlier text it quotes, alludes to or echoes. The Significance essay explains why the link matters and where it points in Christ.

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Intertextuality Pair

Ruth 2:8 → Leviticus 19:9-10

Allusion

Later text

Ruth 2:8BSB

Then Boaz said to Ruth, "Listen, my daughter. Do not go and glean in another field, and do not go away from this place, but stay here close to my servant girls.

Earlier text

Leviticus 19:9-10BSB

When you reap the harvest of your land, you are not to reap to the very edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest. You must not strip your vineyard bare or gather its fallen grapes. Leave them for the poor and the foreigner. I am the LORD your God.

Significance

Leviticus 19:9-10 prohibits reaping to the very edges of the field or gathering the gleanings (לֶקֶט, leqet), reserving them for the poor (עָנִי, 'ani) and the foreigner (גֵּר, ger). Ruth's gleaning in Boaz's field is the premier narrative embodiment of this Holiness Code legislation, showing what the law looks like in lived practice. Boaz goes beyond mere legal compliance — Leviticus says only "leave them," but Boaz actively instructs his workers to pull stalks from the bundles for Ruth (Ruth 2:16). The scene thus illustrates that the Holiness Code's command "I am the LORD your God" (Lev 19:10) grounds Israel's treatment of the vulnerable in God's own character, which Boaz reflects through abundant generosity. Alongside the ungathered gleanings, the law also reserved the unreaped corner of the field (פֵּאָה, pe'ah, Lev 19:9) for the poor and the foreigner.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Analogy

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