Hours with the Bible; or The scriptures in the light of modern discovery and knowledge . Fig andDerceto.— See Page . a Babylonian engravedstone in the British Fig. 3 —Ark of Ammon.—See Page 38. CH. SAMSON AND ELL 23 vines; a pleasant valley lying underneath on three sides, musicalwith the sound of brooks, though its eastern end is almost touchedby the temble wilderness of Judah. This sunny breadth, whenRuths story opens, is yellow with ripe barley, and rich with tallgreen wheat tliat will be golden ere long. The harvest is reaped bymen, but the sheaves are boimd by
Hours with the Bible; or The scriptures in the light of modern discovery and knowledge . Fig andDerceto.— See Page . a Babylonian engravedstone in the British Fig. 3 —Ark of Ammon.—See Page 38. CH. SAMSON AND ELL 23 vines; a pleasant valley lying underneath on three sides, musicalwith the sound of brooks, though its eastern end is almost touchedby the temble wilderness of Judah. This sunny breadth, whenRuths story opens, is yellow with ripe barley, and rich with tallgreen wheat tliat will be golden ere long. The harvest is reaped bymen, but the sheaves are boimd by maidens. Life is still simple,and the well-to-do Boaz courteously greets his work-people, as hecomes to them, and is as politely greeted in return. Their meals,while at work, are as simple as all else—only ears of the barleythey are cutting, roasted and shelled by hand, the customary foodof Arab reapers even now,^—and thin cakes of bread, dipped insour wine as a relish, with clear water, drawn by the young men,for drink. Nor is Boaz himself too grand to eat with the rest, orto join in their work. If he does not reap, he Minnows the grain,after younger arms have thresh
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