Ruth 2:17

New English Translation

So she gathered grain in the field until evening. When she threshed what she had gathered, it came to about thirty pounds of barley!

Cross References

Exodus 16:36

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

Proverbs 31:27

She watches over the ways of her household, and does not eat the bread of idleness.

Ruth 2:16

Make sure you pull out ears of grain for her and drop them so she can gather them up. Don’t tell her not to!”

Ruth 2:18

She carried it back to town, and her mother-in-law saw how much grain she had gathered. Then Ruth gave her the roasted grain she had saved from mealtime.