Ruth 2:17 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁷ So she gleaned in the field until evening. Then she beat out what 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

(An omer is a tenth of an ephah.)

Proverbs 31:27

She looks well to the ways of her household and does not eat the bread of idleness.

Ruth 2:16

You must also pull out some handfuls for her from the bundles and leave them for her to glean, and do not rebuke her.”

Ruth 2:18

She picked it up and came into the town, and her mother-in-law saw how much she had gleaned. Then she took out and gave her what was left over after she herself had been satisfied.