1883 Haydock Douay Rheims Bible
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| Ruth 2:17 | She gleaned therefore in the field till evening: and beating out with a rod, and threshing what she had gleaned, she found about the measure of an ephi of barley, that is, three bushels: | Rod, as Gedeon had done, Judges 6:11. --- That is, etc., an explanation of the Vulgate. (Calmet)-The ephi contained three pecks and three pints. (Arbuthnot) --- Alcazar and Cornelius a Lapide say 960 ounces. (Menochius) |