So Ruth gleaned in the field until evening. Then she threshed the barley she had gathered, and it amounted to about an ephah.
(An omer is one-tenth of an ephah.)
She watches over the affairs of her household and does not eat the bread of idleness.
Even pull out some stalks for her from the bundles and leave them for her to pick up, and don’t rebuke her.”
She carried it back to town, and her mother-in-law saw how much she had gathered. Ruth also brought out and gave her what she had left over after she had eaten enough.