THEOSISRuth 1:22Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
So Noemi came with Ruth, the Moabitess, her daughter in law, from the land of her sojournment: and returned into Bethlehem, in the beginning of the barley harvest.
וַתָּ֣שָׁב נָעֳמִ֗י וְר֨וּת הַמּוֹאֲבִיָּ֤ה כַלָּתָהּ֙ עִמָּ֔הּ הַשָּׁ֖בָה מִשְּׂדֵ֣י מוֹאָ֑ב וְהֵ֗מָּה בָּ֚אוּ בֵּ֣ית לֶ֔חֶם בִּתְחִלַּ֖ת קְצִ֥יר שְׂעֹרִֽים׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Ruth 2:23So she kept close to the maids of Booz: and continued to glean with them, till all the barley and the wheat were laid up in the barns.
- 2 Sam 21:9And gave them into the hands of the Gabaonites: and they crucified them on a hill before the Lord: and these seven died together in the first days of the harvest, when the barley began to be reaped.
- Ex 9:31The flax therefore, and the barley were hurt, because the barley was green, and the flax was now bolled;
- Ex 9:32But the wheat, and other winter corn were not hurt, because they were lateward.