Ruth 2:17
15 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:
16 And let fall also some of the handfuls of purpose for her, and leave them, that she may glean them, and rebuke her not.
So she gleaned in the field until even, and beat out that she had gleaned: and it was about an ephah of barley.
18 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.
19 And 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.
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 looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness.
Read in contextEzekiel 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.
Read in contextExodus 16:36
Now an omer is the tenth part of an ephah.
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