Ruth 2:11 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Bible Comments

Heretofore. — The curious Hebrew phrase thus rendered is literally, yesterday and the day before.

Ruth 2:11

11 And Boaz answered and said unto her, It hath fully been shewed me, all that thou hast done unto thy mother in law since the death of thine husband: and how thou hast left thy father and thy mother, and the land of thy nativity, and art come unto a people which thou knewest not heretofore.