Ruth 2:17

In 11 translations

BSB

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).

KJV

So she gleaned in the field until even, and beat out that she had gleaned: and it was about an ephah of barley.

WEB

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

ASV

So she gleaned in the field until even; and she beat out that which she had gleaned, and it was about an ephah of barley.

LSV

And she gleans in the field until the evening, and beats out that which she has gleaned, and it is about an ephah of barley;

YLT

And she gleaneth in the field till the evening, and beateth out that which she hath gleaned, and it is about an ephah of barley;

DBY

And she gleaned in the field until even, and beat out what she had gleaned; and it was about an ephah of barley.

DRC

She gleaned therefore in the field till evening: and beating out with a rod and threshing what she had gleaned, she found about the measure of an ephi of barley, that is, three bushels:

GNV

So she gleaned in the fielde vntill euening, and she thresshed that shee had gathered, and it was about an Ephah of barly.

JPS

So she gleaned in the field until even; and she beat out that which she had gleaned, and it was about an ephah of barley.

LXXE

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

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Original-language editions

WLC

וַתְּלַקֵּ֥ט בַּשָּׂדֶ֖ה עַד־הָעָ֑רֶב וַתַּחְבֹּט֙ אֵ֣ת אֲשֶׁר־לִקֵּ֔טָה וַיְהִ֖י כְּאֵיפָ֥ה שְׂעֹרִֽים׃

LXX-Br

Καὶ συνέλεξεν ἐν τῷ ἀγρῷ ἕως ἑσπέρας, καὶ ἐῤῥάβδισεν ἃ συνέλεξε, καὶ ἐγενήθη ὡς οἰφὶ κριθῶν.

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Cross-references most cited first

• Proverbs 31:27She watches over the affairs of her household and does not eat the bread of idleness.
• Ezekiel 45:11–12The 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. The shekel will consist of twenty…
• Exodus 16:36(Now an omer is a tenth of an ephah.)

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