So she stayed close to the maidens of Boaz, to glean to the end of barley harvest and of wheat harvest; and she lived with her mother-in-law.
The flax and the barley were struck, for the barley had ripened and the flax was blooming.
A wise son listens to his father’s instruction, but a scoffer doesn’t listen to rebuke.
One who walks with wise men grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.
As Peter was in the courtyard below, one of the maids of the high priest came,
Don’t be deceived! “Evil companionships corrupt good morals.”
You shall count for yourselves seven weeks. From the time you begin to put the sickle to the standing grain you shall begin to count seven weeks.
So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter-in-law, with her, who returned out of the country of Moab. They came to Bethlehem in the beginning of barley harvest.
Naomi said to Ruth her daughter-in-law, “It is good, my daughter, that you go out with his maidens, and that they not meet you in any other field.”
Naomi her mother-in-law said to her, “My daughter, shall I not seek rest for you, that it may be well with you?