“So she gleaned in the field until evening; and she beat out that which she had gleaned, and it was about an ephah of barley.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Ruth 2 contains 23 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.