veil: or sheet, or apron, The word mitpachath: has been variously rendered. The LXX translate it περιζωμα:, an apron, and Vulgate, pallium:, a cloak. By the circumstances of the story, it must have been of a considerable size; and accordingly Dr. Shaw thinks it was no other than the hyke:, the finer sort of which, such as are still worn by ladies and persons of distinction among the Arabs, he takes to answer to the πεπλος:, or robe, of the ancient Greeks.
he measured: Isaiah 32:8; Galatians 6:10
six measures: The quantity of this barley is uncertain. The Targum renders it, shith sein:, "six seahs:." A seah: contained about two gallons and a half, six of which must have been a very heavy load for a woman, and so the Targumist thought, for he adds, "And she received strength from the Lord to carry it."