Ruth 1:22

So Naomi returned from Moab accompanied by Ruth the Moabite, her daughter-in-law, arriving in Bethlehem as the barley harvest was beginning.

 

accompanied by Ruth the Moabite, her daughter-in-law

Ruth 2:2  And Ruth the Moabite said to Naomi, "Let me go to the fields and pick up the leftover grain behind anyone in whose eyes I find favor." 

Ruth 2:6  The overseer replied, "She is the Moabite who came back from Moab with Naomi."

Ruth 2:21  Then Ruth the Moabite said, "He even said to me, 'Stay with my workers until they finish harvesting all my grain.' "

Ruth 4:5  Then Boaz said, "On the day you buy the land from Naomi, you also acquire Ruth the Moabite, the dead man's widow, in order to maintain the name of the dead with his property."

Ruth 4:10  "I have also acquired Ruth the Moabite, Mahlon's widow, as my wife, in order to maintain the name of the dead with his property, so that his name will not disappear from among his family or from his hometown. Today you are witnesses!"

arriving in Bethlehem as the barley harvest was beginning 

Deuteronomy 8:7-8  For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land--a land with brooks, streams and deep springs gushing out into the valleys and hills; a land with wheat and barley, vines and fig trees, pomegranates, olive oil and honey; ...

Ruth 2:17  So Ruth gleaned in the field until evening. Then she threshed the barley she had gathered, and it amounted to about an ephah. [20 quarts or 22 liters]

Ruth 2:23  So Ruth stayed close to the women of Boaz to glean until the barley and wheat harvests were finished. And she lived with her mother-in-law.

Exodus 9:31-32  (The flax and barley were destroyed [in the plague of hail], since the barley had headed and the flax was in bloom. The wheat and spelt, however were not destroyed, because they ripen later.)

Leviticus 19:9-10  " 'When you reap the harvest of your land, do not reap to the very edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest. Do not go over your vineyard a second time or pick up the grapes that have fallen. Leave them for the poor and the foreigner. I am the LORD your God.' "

[brackets are mine]

 

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