She said, These six [measures] of barley gave he me; for he said, "Don't go empty to your mother-in-law."
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She said, These six [measures] of barley gave he me; for he said, "Don't go empty to your mother-in-law."
And she said, These six measures of barley gave he me; for he said to me, Go not empty unto thy mother in law.
And she said, “He gave to me these six of barley, for he said, ‘You must not go empty to your mother-in-law.’”
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She said, These six [measures] of barley gave he me; for he said, "Don't go empty to your mother-in-law."
And she said, “He gave me these six measures of barley, for he said, ‘Do not go back to your mother-in-law empty-handed.’”
And she said, “He gave me these six measures of barley, for he said, ‘Do not go back to your mother-in-law empty-handed.’”
And she said, These six measures of barley gave he me; for he said to me, Go not empty unto thy mother in law.
And she said, These six `measures' of barley gave he me; for he said, Go not empty unto thy mother-in-law.
And she said, These six measures of barley gave he me; for he said, Go not empty unto thy mother in law.
And said, These sixe measures of barly gaue he me: for he sayd to me, Thou shalt not come emptie vnto thy mother in lawe.
And she said: Behold he hath given me six measures of barley: for he said: I will not have thee return empty to thy mother in law.
And she saith, `These six `measures' of barley he hath given to me, for he said, Thou dost not go in empty unto thy mother-in-law.'
And she says, “These six [measures] of barley he has given to me, for he said, You do not go in empty to your mother-in-law.”
She said, “These six measures of barley are what he gave me, for he said, 'Do not go empty to your mother-in-law.'”
And she said, “He gave to me these six of barley, for he said, ‘You must not go empty to your mother-in-law.’”
And she said, These six [measures] of barley gave he me; for he said to me, Go not empty to thy mother-in-law.
She said, “He gave me these six measures of barley; for he said, ‘Don’t go empty to your mother-in-law.’”
And she said, These six measures of barley he gave me; for he said to me, Go not empty to thy mother-in-law.
“And he also gave me these six measures of barley,” she added. “He told me, ‘You mustn't go home to your mother-in-law empty-handed.’”
And she said, He gave me these six measures of grain, saying, Do not go back to your mother-in-law with nothing in your hands.
And she said: 'These six measures of barley gave he me; for he said to me: Go not empty unto thy mother-in-law.'
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Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is חֲמוֹתֵֽךְ mother-in-law H2545 — appearing just 11 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
חֲמוֹתֵֽךְ mother-in-law H2545 occurs in 10 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
Verb forms
Repetition
Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 19 words from the Hebrew and 24 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.
A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.
Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.
In the original languages it is 14 Hebrew tokens and 21 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.
The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.
These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.
וַתֹּ֕אמֶר שֵׁשׁ הַשְּׂעֹרִ֥ים הָאֵ֖לֶּה נָ֣תַן לִ֑י כִּ֚י אָמַ֣ר אֵלַ֔י אַל תָּב֥וֹאִי רֵיקָ֖ם אֶל חֲמוֹתֵֽךְ
She said, These six [measures] of barley gave he me; for he said, "Don't go empty to your mother-in-law."
World English Bible · Public Domain
καί εἶπον αὐτός ὁ ἕξ ὁ κριθή οὗτος δίδωμι ἐγώ ὅτι εἶπον πρός ἐγώ μή εἰςἔρχομαι κενός πρός ὁ πενθερά σύ
And she said to her, He gave me these six measures of barley, for he said to me, Go not empty to your mother-in-law.
LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain
Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →
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Ruth, in the Historical, opens this verse with 14 words (11 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is chămôwth (“mother-in-law”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on Ruth 3:17 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.
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Trapp's Complete Commentary
John Trapp
John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown — Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
John Gill's Exposition
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
The Pulpit Commentary
The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.