Barley

Everyday grain of the poor and the first harvest, featured in Ruth and the feeding miracle.

Scripture

Deuteronomy 8:8

8 a land of wheat and barley, and vines and fig trees and pomegranates; a land of olive trees and honey;

Ruth 2:17

17 So she gleaned in the field until evening; and she beat out that which she had gleaned, and it was about an ephah of barley.

John 6:9

9 "There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish, but what are these among so many?"

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