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Ruth 2:17
Ruth 2:17 is verse 17 of Ruth chapter 2, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
So Ruth gathered grain in the field until evening. And when she beat out what she had gleaned, it was about an ephah of barley.
An ephah is approximately 20 dry quarts or 22 liters (probably about 29 pounds or 13.2 kilograms of barley).
King James Version
So she gleaned in the field until even, and beat out that she had gleaned: and it was about an ephah of barley.
World English Bible
So she gleaned in the field until evening; and she beat out that which she had gleaned, and it was about an ephah of barley.
1 ephah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel
Read in context
Ruth 2:15–19 · Berean Standard Bible
15 When Ruth got up to glean, Boaz ordered his young men, “Even if she gathers among the sheaves, do not insult her.
16 Rather, pull out for her some stalks from the bundles and leave them for her to gather. Do not rebuke her.”
17 So Ruth gathered grain in the field until evening. And when she beat out what she had gleaned, it was about an ephah of barley.
18 She picked up the grain and went into the town, where her mother-in-law saw what she had gleaned. And she brought out what she had saved from her meal and gave it to Naomi.
19 Then her mother-in-law asked her, “Where did you glean today, and where did you work? Blessed be the man who noticed you.” So she told her mother-in-law where she had worked. “The name of the man I worked with today is Boaz,” she said.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Proverbs 31:27She watches over the affairs of her household and does not eat the bread of idleness.
Exodus 16:36(Now an omer is a tenth of an ephah.)
Ezekiel 45:11The ephah and the bath shall be the same quantity so that the bath will contain a tenth of a homer, and the ephah a tenth of a homer; the homer will be the standard measure for both.
Ezekiel 45:12The shekel will consist of twenty gerahs. Twenty shekels plus twenty-five shekels plus fifteen shekels will equal one mina.