And the flax and the barley was smitten: for the barley [was] in the ear, and the flax [was] bolled.
Ver. 31, 32. And the flax and the barley.] We need not wonder that in Egypt their barley harvest was so long before their wheat harvest; since, from the overflow of the Nile, and the difference of the climate, it must, needs be otherwise with them than with other countries.