So she stayed gleaning with Boaz’s young women until the end of the barley and wheat harvests.
Now the flax and the barley were ruined, because the barley was in ear and the flax in bud.
A wise son loves correction, but the scoffer heeds no rebuke.
Walk with the wise and you become wise, but the companion of fools fares badly.
While Peter was below in the courtyard, one of the high priest’s maids came along.
Do not be led astray: “Bad company corrupts good morals.”
You shall count off seven weeks; begin to count the seven weeks from the day when the sickle is first put to the standing grain.
Thus it was that Naomi came back with her Moabite daughter-in-law Ruth, who accompanied her back from the plateau of Moab. They arrived in Bethlehem at the beginning of the barley harvest.
“You would do well, my daughter,” Naomi rejoined, “to work with his young women; in someone else’s field you might be insulted.”
Naomi said to her, “My daughter, should I not be seeking a pleasing home for you?