Et rursum : Expande, inquit, pallium tuum, quo operiris, et tene utraque manu. Qua extendente, et tenente, mensus est sex modios hordei, et posuit super eam. Quæ portans ingressa est civitatem,
And he told her, “Bring the shawl you are wearing and hold it out.” When she did so, he poured in six measures of barley (note: Possibly six seahs (two ephahs), or approximately 39.6 dry quarts or 43.8 liters (about 58 pounds or 26.3 kilograms of barley)) and placed it on her. Then he went (note: Most Hebrew manuscripts; many Hebrew manuscripts, Vulgate, and Syriac she went) into the city.