Ruth 2:18
Good News Translation
She took the grain back into town and showed her mother-in-law how much she had gathered. She also gave her the food left over from the meal.

New Revised Standard Version
She picked it up and came into the town, and her mother-in-law saw how much she had gleaned. Then she took out and gave her what was left over after she herself had been satisfied.

Contemporary English Version
She took the grain to town and showed Naomi how much she had picked up. Ruth also gave her the food left over from her lunch.

New American Bible
which she took into the town and showed to her mother-in-law. Next she brought out what she had left over from the meal and gave it to her.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Which she took up, and returned into the city, and shewed it to her mother in law: moreover, she brought out, and gave her of the remains of her meat, wherewith she had been filled.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Which she took up, and returned into the city, and shewed it to her mother in law: moreover, she brought out, and gave her of the remains of her meat, wherewith she had been filled.

she had reserved

Ruth 2:13 And she said: I have found grace in thy eyes, my lord, who hast comforted me, and hast spoken to the heart of thy handmaid, who am not like to one of thy maids.

John 6:12,13 And when they were filled, he said to his disciples: gather up the fragments that remain, lest they be lost. . . .

1 Timothy 5:4 But if any widow have children or grandchildren, let her learn first to govern her own house and to make a return of duty to her parents; for this is acceptable before God.

Context
Boaz Meets Ruth
17She 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: 18Which she took up, and returned into the city, and shewed it to her mother in law: moreover, she brought out, and gave her of the remains of her meat, wherewith she had been filled.19And her mother in law said to her: Where hast thou gleaned today, and where hast thou wrought? blessed be he that hath had pity on thee. And she told her with whom she had wrought: and she told the man's name, that he was called Booz.…
Cross References
Ruth 2:14
And Booz said to her: At mealtime come thou hither, and eat of the bread, and dip thy morsel in the vinegar. So she sat at the side of the reapers, and she heaped to herself frumenty, and ate and was filled, and took the leavings.

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:

Ruth 2:17
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