in the beginning
Ruth 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.
Exodus 9:31
And the flax and the barley was smitten: for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was bolled.
Exodus 9:32
But the wheat and the rie were not smitten: for they were not grown up.
2 Samuel 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.