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Rth 2:14 — And Boaz said unto her, At mealtime come thou hither, and eat of the bread, and dip thy morsel in the vinegar. And she sat beside the reapers: and he reached her parched [corn], and she did eat, and was sufficed, and left.

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

At meal-time		Job 31:16-22; Pro 11:24,25; Isa 32:8; Isa 58:7,10,11; Luk 14:12-14
dip thy morsel		Vinegar, robb of fruits, etc., are used for this purpose in the East to the present day; into which, says Dr. Shaw, they dip the bread and hand together.
parched		1Sa 17:17; 1Sa 25:18; 2Sa 17:28
she did		Deu 8:10; Deu 11:15; 2Ki 4:43,44; Mat 14:20
was sufficed		Rth 2:18; Psa 23:5

Correlating Passages

At meal-time

	Job 31:16	If I have withheld the poor from [their] desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;
	Job 31:17	Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof;
	Job 31:18	(For from my youth he was brought up with me, as [with] a father, and I have guided her from my mother's womb;)
	Job 31:19	If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering;
	Job 31:20	If his loins have not blessed me, and [if] he were [not] warmed with the fleece of my sheep;
	Job 31:21	If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:
	Job 31:22	[Then] let mine arm fall from my shoulder blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone.
	Pro 11:24	There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and [there is] that withholdeth more than is meet, but [it tendeth] to poverty.
	Pro 11:25	The liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that watereth shall be watered also himself.
	Isa 32:8	But the liberal deviseth liberal things; and by liberal things shall he stand.
	Isa 58:7	[Is it] not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?
	Isa 58:10	And [if] thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness [be] as the noonday:
	Isa 58:11	And the LORD shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.
	Luk 14:12	Then said he also to him that bade him, When thou makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy friends, nor thy brethren, neither thy kinsmen, nor [thy] rich neighbours; lest they also bid thee again, and a recompence be made thee.
	Luk 14:13	But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind:
	Luk 14:14	And thou shalt be blessed; for they cannot recompense thee: for thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just.

parched

	1Sa 17:17	And Jesse said unto David his son, Take now for thy brethren an ephah of this parched [corn], and these ten loaves, and run to the camp to thy brethren;
	1Sa 25:18	Then Abigail made haste, and took two hundred loaves, and two bottles of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five measures of parched [corn], and an hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid [them] on asses.
	2Sa 17:28	Brought beds, and basons, and earthen vessels, and wheat, and barley, and flour, and parched [corn], and beans, and lentiles, and parched [pulse],

she did

	Deu 8:10	When thou hast eaten and art full, then thou shalt bless the LORD thy God for the good land which he hath given thee.
	Deu 11:15	And I will send grass in thy fields for thy cattle, that thou mayest eat and be full.
	2Ki 4:43	And his servitor said, What, should I set this before an hundred men? He said again, Give the people, that they may eat: for thus saith the LORD, They shall eat, and shall leave [thereof].
	2Ki 4:44	So he set [it] before them, and they did eat, and left [thereof], according to the word of the LORD.
	Mat 14:20	And they did all eat, and were filled: and they took up of the fragments that remained twelve baskets full.

was sufficed

	Rth 2:18	And she took [it] up, and went into the city: and her mother in law saw what she had gleaned: and she brought forth, and gave to her that she had reserved after she was sufficed.
	Psa 23:5	Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.

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