Ruth 2:17 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

¹⁷ So she gleaned in the field until even, and beat out that she had gleaned: and it was about an ephah of barley.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁷ So she gleaned in the field until even, and beat out that she had gleaned: and it was about an ephah of barley.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ So she gleaned in the field until evening. Then she beat out what she had gleaned. It was about an ephah of barley.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁷ So she gleaned in the field until even; and she beat out that which she had gleaned, and it was about an ephah of barley.

Common English Bible

¹⁷ So she gleaned in the field until evening. Then she threshed what she had gleaned; it was about an ephah of barley.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ And so she gathered in the field until evening. And striking and threshing with a staff what she had gathered, she found about the measure of an ephah of barley, that is, three measures.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁷ 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:

Ruth 2:17 Cross References

Exodus 16:36

Now an omer is the tenth part of an ephah.

Proverbs 31:27

She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness.

Ruth 2:16

and let fall also some of the handfuls of purpose for her, and leave them, that she may glean them, and rebuke her not.

Ruth 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.