Ruth 2:17
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.”
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.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- DARBY
- And she gleaned in the field until even, and beat out what she had gleaned; and it was about an ephah of barley.
- BLB
- 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.
- ÅB
- Så sanket hun aks på åkeren like til kvelden, og da hun banket ut det hun hadde sanket, var det omkring en efa bygg.
- OTB
- Rut fortsatte å sanke på marken til kvelden. Etterpå tresket hun bygget hun hadde samlet, som utgjorde omtrent en efa.
- B1930
- Så sanket hun aks på akeren like til aftenen, og da hun banket ut det hun hadde sanket, var det omkring en efa bygg.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Proverbs 31:27
She watches over the affairs of her household and does not eat the bread of idleness.
Read in contextEzekiel 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.
Read in contextExodus 16:36
(Now an omer is a tenth of an ephah.)
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