Cross references
Ruth 2:17
So Ruth gathered grain in the field until evening. And when she beat out what she had gleaned, it was about an ephah of barley.
- a An ephah is approximately 20 dry quarts or 22 liters (probably about 29 pounds or 13.2 kilograms of barley).
Ruth 2:17 has 3 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 1 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Proverbs 31:27 (4 votes) and Ezekiel 45:11–12 (3 votes). 2 other verses point back to it. It links with 5 other books, from Genesis 24 to Ezekiel 45.
Which verses does Ruth 2:17 point to?
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- Proverbs 31:274 votes
She watches over the affairs of her household and does not eat the bread of idleness.
- Ezekiel 45:11–123 votes
The ephah and the bath shall be the same quantity so that the bath will contain a tenth of a homer, and the ephah a tenth of a homer; the homer will be the standard measure for both. The shekel will consist of twenty gerahs. Twenty shekels plus twenty-five shekels plus fifteen shekels will equal one mina.
- Exodus 16:362 votes
(Now an omer is a tenth of an ephah.)
Which verses point to Ruth 2:17?
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