Ruth 2:17 · KJV
“So she gleaned in the field until even, and beat out that she had gleaned: and it was about an ephah of barley.”
— Ruth 2:17
And let fall also {some} of the handfuls of purpose for her, and leave {them}, that she may glean {them}, and rebuke her not.
And she took {it} up, and went into the city: and her mother in law saw what she had gleaned: and she brought forth, and gave to her that she had reserved after she was sufficed.
Ruth 2 — Context
And when she was risen up to glean, Boaz commanded his young men, saying, Let her glean even among the sheaves, and reproach her not: {reproach...: Heb. shame her not}
16And let fall also {some} of the handfuls of purpose for her, and leave {them}, that she may glean {them}, and rebuke her not.
17So she gleaned in the field until even, and beat out that she had gleaned: and it was about an ephah of barley.
18And she took {it} up, and went into the city: and her mother in law saw what she had gleaned: and she brought forth, and gave to her that she had reserved after she was sufficed.
19And her mother in law said unto her, Where hast thou gleaned to day? and where wroughtest thou? blessed be he that did take knowledge of thee. And she shewed her mother in law with whom she had wrought, and said, The man's name with whom I wrought to day {is} Boaz.
Cross References
Proverbs 31:27
She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness.
Ezekiel 45:11-12
The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, that the bath may contain the tenth part of an homer, and the ephah the tenth part of an homer: the measure thereof shall be after the homer.
Exodus 16:36
Now an omer {is} the tenth {part} of an ephah.