Ruth 2:15-17
Easy-to-Read Version
15 Then Ruth got up and went back to work.
Then Boaz told his servants, “Let Ruth gather even around the piles of grain. Don’t stop her. 16 And make her work easier by dropping some full heads of grain for her. Let her gather that grain. Don’t tell her to stop.”
Naomi Hears About Boaz
17 Ruth worked in the fields until evening. Then she separated the grain from the chaff. There was about one-half bushel[a] of barley.
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- Ruth 2:17 one-half bushel Literally, “one ephah” (22 l).
Ruth 2:15-17
New International Version
15 As she got up to glean, Boaz gave orders to his men, “Let her gather among the sheaves(A) and don’t reprimand her. 16 Even pull out some stalks for her from the bundles and leave them for her to pick up, and don’t rebuke(B) her.”
17 So Ruth gleaned in the field until evening. Then she threshed(C) the barley she had gathered, and it amounted to about an ephah.[a](D)
Footnotes
- Ruth 2:17 That is, probably about 30 pounds or about 13 kilograms
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