Ruth 2:16 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Bible Comments

And let fall some of the handfuls on purpose for her,.... That is, when they had reaped an handful, instead of laying it in its proper order, to be taken up by those that gathered after them, or by themselves, in order to be bound up in sheaves, scatter it about, or let it fall where they reaped it:

and leave them, that she may glean them, and rebuke her not for taking them, as if she did a wrong thing.

Ruth 2:16

16 And let fall also some of the handfuls of purpose for her, and leave them, that she may glean them, and rebuke her not.