So she gleaned in the field until evening. When she thrashed what she had gathered, there was about an ephah of barley.
Now an omer is the tenth part of an ephah.
She watches over the affairs of her household, and does not eat the bread of idleness.
Also be sure to pull out some grain for her from the sheaves and leave them for her to pick up, and do not rebuke her.”
She carried it back to town, where her mother-in-law saw what she had gleaned. Ruth took some out and gave her what was left over after eating her fill.