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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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Footnotes

  1. Ruth 2:17 one-half bushel Literally, “one ephah” (22 l).

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