Ruth 2:17

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

Cross References

Exodus 16:36

(An omer is a tenth of an ephah.)

Proverbs 31:27

She looks well to the ways of her household and does not eat the bread of idleness.

Ruth 2:16

You must also pull out some handfuls for her from the bundles and leave them for her to glean, and do not rebuke her.”

Ruth 2:18

She picked it up and came into the town, and her mother-in-law saw how much she had gleaned. Then she took out and gave her what was left over after she herself had been satisfied.