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.
Parallel translations
- KJV So she gleaned in the field until even, and beat out that she had gleaned: and it was about an ephah of barley.
- 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.
- NKJV So she gleaned in the field until evening, and beat out what she had gleaned, and it was about an ephah of barley.
- NASB So she gleaned in the field until evening. Then she beat out what she had gleaned, and it was about an ephah of barley.
- NLT So Ruth gathered barley there all day, and when she beat out the grain that evening, it filled an entire basket.
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Cross-references · 3
- Prov 31:27She looks well to the ways of her household, and doesn’t eat the bread of idleness.
- Ezek 45:11–12The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, that the bath may contain one tenth of a homer, and the ephah one tenth of a homer: its measure shall be after the homer.
- Exod 16:36Now an omer is one tenth of an ephah.
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