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What Does “Ephah” Mean in the Bible?

Measure

A measure for grain, like a big bucket: about twenty-two liters, almost six gallons.

Where it appears in the Bible

Ruth 2:17

What the Bible says

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:

Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner revision), public domain.

Source: Ruth 2:17; Exodus 16:36

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