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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Ruth 2:17 Catholic 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. </title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/catholic/ruth/2-17.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/15002new8.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../vmenus/ruth/2-17.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmcc/ruth/2-17.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/catholic/">Bible</a> > <a href="/gntd/ruth/1.htm">Ruth</a> > <a href="/gntd/ruth/2.htm">Chapter 2</a> > Verse 17</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div><div id="ad1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/ad1.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../ruth/2-16.htm" title="Ruth 2:16">◄</a> Ruth 2:17 <a href="../ruth/2-18.htm" title="Ruth 2:18">►</a></div></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Verse</b><a href="/nabre/ruth/2.htm" class="clickchap" style="color:#552200" title="Click any translation name for full chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gntd/ruth/2.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />So Ruth gathered grain in the field until evening, and when she had beaten it out, she found she had nearly twenty-five pounds. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/ruth/2.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />So she gleaned in the field until evening. Then she beat out what she had gleaned, and it was about an ephah of barley.<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cevd/ruth/2.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />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. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/ruth/2.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />She gleaned in the field until evening, and when she beat out what she had gleaned it came to about an ephah of barley,<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drbc/ruth/2.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />She gleaned therefore in the field till evening: and beating out with a rod, and threshing what she had gleaned, she found about the measure of an ephi of barley, that is, three bushels:<div class="vheading2">Treasury of Scripture Knowledge</div><p class="tsk2">She gleaned therefore in the field till evening: and beating out with a rod, and threshing what she had gleaned, she found about the measure of an ephi of barley, that is, three bushels:</p><p class="hdg">she gleaned</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../proverbs/31-27.htm">Proverbs 31:27</a> She hath looked well on the paths of her house, and hath not eaten her bread idle.</p><p class="hdg">ephah</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../exodus/16-36.htm">Exodus 16:36</a> Now a gomor is the tenth part of an ephi.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../ezekiel/45-11.htm">Ezekiel 45:11,12</a> The ephi and the bate shall be equal, and of one measure: that the bate may contain the tenth part of a core, and the ephi the tenth part of a core: their weight shall be equal according to the measure of a core. . . . </p></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/drbc/ruth/2.htm">Boaz Meets Ruth</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">16</span>And let fall some of your handfuls of purpose, and leave them, that she may gather them without shame, and let no man rebuke her when she gathereth them. <span class="reftext">17</span><span class="highl">She gleaned therefore in the field till evening: and beating out with a rod, and threshing what she had gleaned, she found about the measure of an ephi of barley, that is, three bushels:</span><span class="reftext">18</span>Which she took up, and returned into the city, and shewed it to her mother in law: moreover, she brought out, and gave her of the remains of her meat, wherewith she had been filled.…<div class="vheading2">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="../ruth/2-16.htm">Ruth 2:16</a></span><br />And let fall some of your handfuls of purpose, and leave them, that she may gather them without shame, and let no man rebuke her when she gathereth them.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../ruth/2-18.htm">Ruth 2:18</a></span><br />Which she took up, and returned into the city, and shewed it to her mother in law: moreover, she brought out, and gave her of the remains of her meat, wherewith she had been filled.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" 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