She fell on her face— With the reverence customary in the East (compare Genesis 33:3, and the marginal reference).

A stranger. —A foreigner. Note, however, that the Moabite language, though having its own peculiarities, really differed very litt…

Then she fell on her face, and bowed herself to the ground ,
&c.] In great humility, and under a deep sense of the f…

The devout and kind language between Boaz and his reapers shows that there were godly people in Israel. Such language as this is rarely heard in ou…