Ruth 2:17

Modern

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.

Traditional

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

Literal

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

Latin

Collegit ergo in agro usque ad vesperam: et quæ collegerat virga cædens et excutiens, invenit hordei quasi ephi mensuram, id est, tres modios.

Hebrew

English

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.

Theme notes and profiles

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