Ruth 2:18

New American Bible - revised edition

which she took into the town and showed to her mother-in-law. Next she brought out what she had left over from the meal and gave it to her.

Cross References

1 Timothy 5:4

But if a widow has children or grandchildren, let these first learn to perform their religious duty to their own family and to make recompense to their parents, for this is pleasing to God.

Ruth 2:14

At mealtime Boaz said to her, “Come here and have something to eat; dip your bread in the sauce.” Then as she sat near the harvesters, he handed her some roasted grain and she ate her fill and had some left over.

Ruth 2:17

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