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16 Pull out some stalks from the bundles for her and leave them for her to gather. Don’t rebuke her.’ 17 So Ruth gathered corn in the field until evening. She beat out what she had gathered, and it was about twenty litres[a] of barley. 18 She picked up the grain and went into the town, where her mother-in-law saw what she had gleaned. She brought out what she had left over from her meal and gave it to her.

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  1. 2:17 Lit about an ephah