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17 So Ruth gathered barley there all day, and when she beat out the grain that evening, it filled an entire basket.[a]

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  1. 2:17 Hebrew it was about an ephah [20 quarts or 22 liters].

11 The homer[a] will be your standard unit for measuring volume. The ephah and the bath[b] will each measure one-tenth of a homer. 12 The standard unit for weight will be the silver shekel.[c] One shekel will consist of twenty gerahs, and sixty shekels will be equal to one mina.[d]

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  1. 45:11a The homer measures about 50 gallons or 220 liters.
  2. 45:11b The ephah is a dry measure; the bath is a liquid measure.
  3. 45:12a The shekel weighs about 0.4 ounces or 11 grams.
  4. 45:12b Elsewhere the mina is equated to 50 shekels.

27 She carefully watches everything in her household
    and suffers nothing from laziness.

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36 The container used to measure the manna was an omer, which was one-tenth of an ephah; it held about two quarts.[a]

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  1. 16:36 Hebrew An omer is one-tenth of an ephah.

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