Ruth 2:17 - Forerunner Commentary

Ruth 2:17

15 And when she rose up to¹ glean, Boaz commanded his young men, saying, “Let her glean even among the sheaves, and do not² reproach her.

16 Also let grain from the bundles fall purposely for her; leave it that she may glean, and do not rebuke her.”

17 So she gleaned in the field until evening, and beat out what she had gleaned, and it was about an ephah of ^abarley.

18 Then she took it up and went into the city, and her mother-in-law saw what she had gleaned. So she brought out and gave to her ^awhat she had kept back after she had been satisfied.

19 And her mother-in-law said to her, “Where have you gleaned today? And where did you work? Blessed be the one who ^atook notice of you.” So she told her mother-in-law with whom she had worked, and said, “The man’s name with whom I worked today is Boaz.”

20 Then Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, ^a“Blessed be he of the Lord, who ^bhas not forsaken His kindness to the living and the dead!” And Naomi said to her, “This man is a relation of ours, ^cone of our close relatives.”

21 Ruth the Moabitess said, “He also said to me, ‘You shall stay close by my young men until they have finished all my harvest.’ ”

22 And Naomi said to Ruth her daughter-in-law, “It is good, my daughter, that you go out with his young women, and that people do not¹ meet you in any other field.”

Verse Comparison: Ruth 2:17

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American Standard Version
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.

Amplified® Bible
So she gleaned in the field until evening. Then she beat out what she had gleaned. It was about an ephah of barley.

Contemporary English Version
Ruth worked in the field until evening. Then after she had pounded the grain off the stalks, she had a large basket full of grain.

Darby English Version
And she gleaned in the field until even, and beat out what she had gleaned; and it was about an ephah of barley.

Good News Bible
So Ruth gathered grain in the field until evening, and when she had beaten it out, she found she had nearly twenty-five pounds.

King James Version
So she gleaned in the field until even, and beat out that she had gleaned: and it was about an ephah of barley.

New American Standard Bible
So she gleaned in the field until evening. Then she beat out what she had gleaned, and it was about an ephah of barley.

New International Version
So Ruth gleaned in the field until evening. Then she threshed the barley she had gathered, and it amounted to about an ephah.

New King James Version
So she gleaned in the field until evening, and beat out what she had gleaned, and it was about an ephah of barley.

N.A.S.B. in E-Prime
So she gleaned in the field until evening. Then she beat out what she had gleaned, and it yielded about an ephah of barley.

Revised Standard Version
So she gleaned in the field until evening; then she beat out what she had gleaned, and it was about an ephah of barley.

Young's Literal Translation
And she gleaneth in the field till the evening, and beateth out that which she hath gleaned, and it is about an ephah of barley;

New English Translation
So she gathered grain in the field until evening. When she threshed¹ what she had gathered, it came to about thirty pounds² of barley!

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