...thee and thy servants, I know that ye do not yet fear the LORD God. And the flax and the barley was smitten : for the barley was in the ear, and the flax...rye were not smitten : for they were not grown up. And Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh, and spread out his hands unto the LORD : and the thunders...

...Thus, in the ninth chapter of Exodus, verses 31 and 32, we read, " And the flax and the barley was smitten ; for the barley was in the ear, and the flax...rye were not smitten ; for they were not grown up." In the same book, some of the uses are mentioned for which flax was employed in those early days. In...

...desolated Egypt, in consequence of the refusal of Pharaoh to let the children of Israel depart : " The flax and the barley were smitten, for the barley...wheat and the rye were not smitten, for they were not come up." Commentators agree that this event happened in the month of March ; the first crop of barley...

...the stalks (calami) of the standing corn." — (Taylor, p. 36.) *3 " And the flax and the barley was smitten, for the barley was in the ear, and the flax...rye were not smitten, for they were not grown up." (Exod. ix., 31, 32.) Egypt was a yery fruitful country, and the land produced a plentiful supply of...

...saw the face of the country as described by the sacred historian. "And the flax and the barley was smitten : for the barley was in the ear, and the flax...rye were not smitten, for they were not grown up." I plucked an ear of barley, but saw nothing of wheat or rye. Many thoughts crowded upon me. I thought...

...that " the flax and the barley were smitten, for the barley was in the ear and the flax was bolled ; but the wheat and the rye were not smitten, for they were not grown up," (or rather perhaps, were not out of sheath.1) Now this is precisely such a degree of forwardness as...

...that " the flax and the barley were smitten, for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was bolled ; but the wheat and the rye were not smitten, for they were not grown up" (or rather, perhaps, were not out of sheath1). Now this is precisely such a degree of forwardness as...

...And the flax and the barley was smitten : for the barley ivas in the ear, and the flax was boiled. 32 0. 7not grown up. 33 And Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh, and spread abroad his hands unto the...

...more advanced stage of its growth than the wheat, reminding me strongly, of the passage in Exodus, " The flax and the barley were smitten, for the barley...rye were not smitten, for they were not grown up." I had the evidence before me, that, when the barley would be in the ear, and the. flax boiled, the...

...brooks of defence shall be emptied and dried up: the reeds and llags shall wither. RYE. Ex. Ix, 82. Bat L !൐! TARES. ifott. xlll, 24-31. (See under Scaping and Harvest.) FAILURE OF CROPS. OF GRASS. 1 Kings xvlil,...