Ruth 2:17

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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:

Cross References

Proverbs 31:27

She hath looked well to the paths of her house, and hath not eaten her bread idle.

Exodus 16:36

Now a gomor is the tenth part of an ephi.

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.