Quotes about Glean

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.

When Ruth got up to glean, Boaz ordered his young men, “Even if she gathers among the sheaves, do not insult her.

Then her mother-in-law asked her, “Where did you glean today, and where did you work? Blessed be the man who noticed you.” So she told her mother-in-law where she had worked. “The name of the man I worked with today is Boaz,” she said.

They gather fodder in the fields and glean the vineyards of the wicked.

The letter of the law says, "Let them glean." The spirit of the law says, "Feed them." Two entirely different concepts. Ruth's bold proposal exposes the difference.