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15 Then she rose to glean, and Boaz commanded his young men, saying, “Let her glean even among the sheaves, and do not dishonor her. 16 Also you shall purposely pull out for her some grain from the bundles and [a]leave it that she may glean, and do not rebuke her.”

17 So she gleaned in the field until evening. Then she beat out what she had gleaned, and it was about an [b]ephah of barley.

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Footnotes

  1. Ruth 2:16 Or forsake, cf. 1:16; 2:11, 20
  2. Ruth 2:17 An ephah was approx. 21 qt. or 23 l