So she kept fast by the maidens of Boaz to glean unto the end of barley harvest and wheat harvest, and dwelt with her mother-in-law.

And the flax and the barley were smitten; for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was in bolls.

But the wheat and the rye were not smitten, for they were not grown up.

And he delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them on 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.