Exodus 9:31
Good News Translation
The flax and the barley were ruined, because the barley was ripe, and the flax was budding.

New Revised Standard Version
(Now the flax and the barley were ruined, for the barley was in the ear and the flax was in bud.

Contemporary English Version
Meanwhile, the flax and barley crops had been destroyed by the storm because they were ready to ripen.

New American Bible
Now the flax and the barley were ruined, because the barley was in ear and the flax in bud.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The flax therefore, and the barley were hurt, because the barley was green, and the flax was now bolled;

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The flax therefore, and the barley were hurt, because the barley was green, and the flax was now bolled;

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Ruth 1:22 So Noemi came with Ruth, the Moabitess, her daughter in law, from the land of her sojournment: and returned into Bethlehem, in the beginning of the barley harvest.

Ruth 2:23 So she kept close to the maids of Booz: and continued to glean with them, till all the barley and the wheat were laid up in the barns.

Amos 4:9 I struck you with a burning wind, and with mildew, the palmerworm hath eaten up your many gardens, and your vineyards: your olive groves, and fig groves: yet you returned not to me, saith the Lord.

Habakkuk 3:17 For the fig tree shall not blossom: and there shall be no spring in the vines. The labour of the olive tree shall fail: and the fields shall yield no food: the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls.

Context
The Seventh Plague: Hail
30But I know that neither thou, nor thy servants do yet fear the Lord God. 31The flax therefore, and the barley were hurt, because the barley was green, and the flax was now bolled;32But the wheat, and other winter corn were not hurt, because they were lateward.…
Cross References
Exodus 9:32
But the wheat, and other winter corn were not hurt, because they were lateward.

Ruth 1:22
So Noemi came with Ruth, the Moabitess, her daughter in law, from the land of her sojournment: and returned into Bethlehem, in the beginning of the barley harvest.

Ruth 2:23
So she kept close to the maids of Booz: and continued to glean with them, till all the barley and the wheat were laid up in the barns.

2 Samuel 21:9
And gave them into the hands of the Gabaonites: and they crucified them on a hill before the Lord: and these seven died together in the first days of the harvest, when the barley began to be reaped.

Exodus 9:30
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