The stalks of flax. — It is remarked that flax and barley are both early crops (Exodus 9:31), and that the first month (see Joshua 4:19) was the time of barley harvest. (Comp. 2 Samuel 21:9.)
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Joshua 2:6
6 But she had brought them up to the roof of the house, and hid them with the stalks of flax, which she had laid in order upon the roof.