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Rth 1:22 — So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter in law, with her, which returned out of the country of Moab: and they came to Bethlehem in the beginning of barley harvest.

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

in the beginning		At the beginning of Spring; for the barley harvest began immediately after the passover, and that festival was held on the 15th of Nisan, corresponding nearly with our March. Rth 2:23; Exd 9:31,32; 2Sa 21:9

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in the beginning

	Rth 2:23	So she kept fast by the maidens of Boaz to glean unto the end of barley harvest and of wheat harvest; and dwelt with her mother in law.
	Exd 9:31	And the flax and the barley was smitten: for the barley [was] in the ear, and the flax [was] bolled.
	Exd 9:32	But the wheat and the rie were not smitten: for they [were] not grown up.
	2Sa 21:9	And he delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them in the hill before the LORD: and 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.

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Scott, Thomas. "Ruth 1:22," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
<http://www.blueletterbible.org/tsk_b/Rth/1/22.html>.

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