Ruth 2:17

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

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

Cross References

Exodus 16:36

(Now an omer is the tenth of an ephah.)

Proverbs 31:27

She looks well to how things go in her household, and the bread of idleness (gossip, discontent, and self-pity) she will not eat. [I Tim. 5:14; Tit. 2:5.]

Ruth 2:16

And let fall some handfuls for her on purpose and let them lie there for her to glean, and do not rebuke her.

Ruth 2:18

And she took it up and went into the town; she showed her mother-in-law what she had gleaned, and she also brought forth and gave her the food she had reserved after she was satisfied.