Ruth 2:17
Good News Translation
So Ruth gathered grain in the field until evening, and when she had beaten it out, she found she had nearly twenty-five pounds.

New Revised Standard Version
So she gleaned in the field until evening. Then she beat out what she had gleaned, and it was about an ephah of barley.

Contemporary English Version
Ruth worked in the field until evening. Then after she had pounded the grain off the stalks, she had a large basket full of grain.

New American Bible
She gleaned in the field until evening, and when she beat out what she had gleaned it came to about an ephah of barley,

Douay-Rheims Bible
She gleaned therefore in the field till evening: and beating out with a rod, and threshing what she had gleaned, she found about the measure of an ephi of barley, that is, three bushels:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

She gleaned therefore in the field till evening: and beating out with a rod, and threshing what she had gleaned, she found about the measure of an ephi of barley, that is, three bushels:

she gleaned

Proverbs 31:27 She hath looked well on the paths of her house, and hath not eaten her bread idle.

ephah

Exodus 16:36 Now a gomor is the tenth part of an ephi.

Ezekiel 45:11,12 The ephi and the bate shall be equal, and of one measure: that the bate may contain the tenth part of a core, and the ephi the tenth part of a core: their weight shall be equal according to the measure of a core. . . .

Context
Boaz Meets Ruth
16And let fall some of your handfuls of purpose, and leave them, that she may gather them without shame, and let no man rebuke her when she gathereth them. 17She gleaned therefore in the field till evening: and beating out with a rod, and threshing what she had gleaned, she found about the measure of an ephi of barley, that is, three bushels:18Which she took up, and returned into the city, and shewed it to her mother in law: moreover, she brought out, and gave her of the remains of her meat, wherewith she had been filled.…
Cross References
Ruth 2:16
And let fall some of your handfuls of purpose, and leave them, that she may gather them without shame, and let no man rebuke her when she gathereth them.

Ruth 2:18
Which she took up, and returned into the city, and shewed it to her mother in law: moreover, she brought out, and gave her of the remains of her meat, wherewith she had been filled.

Ruth 2:16
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