30 But as for you and your officials, I know that you still do not fear the Lord God.”

31 The flax and the barley were destroyed because the barley was ripe[a] and the flax was budding,(A) 32 but the wheat and the spelt were not destroyed since they are later crops.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. 9:31 Lit was ears of grain
  2. 9:32 Lit are late

30 but thou and thy servants -- I have known that ye are not yet afraid of the face of Jehovah God.'

31 And the flax and the barley have been smitten, for the barley [is] budding, and the flax forming flowers,

32 and the wheat and the rye have not been smitten, for they are late.

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