# Keep your eyes only on the field "Watch the field" # Have I not instructed the men not to touch you? This question can be translated as a statement. Alternate translation: "I have given the men strict instructions not to touch you." # not to touch you Possible meanings are 1) the men were not to harm Ruth or 2) the men were not to stop her from gleaning in his field. # the water that the young men have drawn To draw water means to pull up water from a well or to take it out of a storage vessel.