²² So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabitess her daughter-in-law with her, who returned from the country of Moab. Now they came to Bethlehem ^(A)at the beginning of barley harvest.

²³ So she stayed close by the young women of Boaz, to glean until the end of barley harvest and wheat harvest; and she dwelt with her mother-in-law.

⁹ and he delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them on the hill ^(A)before the Lord. So they fell, all seven together, and were put to death in the days of harvest, in the first days, in the beginning of barley harvest.

³¹ Now the flax and the barley were struck, ^(A)for the barley was in the head and the flax was in bud. ³² But the wheat and the spelt were not struck, for they are ^[a]late crops.