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

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Footnotes

  1. Ruth 2:17 An ephah was about 3/5 bushel or 22 liters

11 The ephah and the bath shall be (A)of the same measure, (B)the bath containing one tenth of a homer,[a] and the ephah one tenth of a homer; the homer shall be the standard measure. 12 (C)The shekel shall be twenty gerahs;[b] twenty shekels plus twenty-five shekels plus fifteen shekels shall be your mina.[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 45:11 A homer was about 6 bushels or 220 liters
  2. Ezekiel 45:12 A shekel was about 2/5 ounce or 11 grams; a gerah was about 1/50 ounce or 0.6 gram
  3. Ezekiel 45:12 A mina was about 1 1/4 pounds or 0.6 kilogram

27 She looks well to the ways of her household
    and does not eat the bread of idleness.

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36 (An omer is (A)the tenth part of an ephah.)[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 16:36 An ephah was about 3/5 bushel or 22 liters

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