Ruth 3:17 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁷And she said, These six measures of barley gave he me; for he said to me, Go not empty unto thy mother in law.

Ruth 3:17 —

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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 14-18)

We are here told, I. How Ruth was dismissed by Boaz. It would not have been safe for her to go home in the dead of the night; therefore she lay at his feet (not by his side) until morning. But as soon as ever the day broke, that she had light to go home by, she got away, before one could know another, that, if she were seen, yet she might not be known to be abroad so unseasonably. She was not shy…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 17)

17. six measures of barley--Hebrew, “six seahs,” a seah contained about two gallons and a half, six of which must have been rather a heavy load for a woman.