¹⁴ During wheat harvest,^(A) Reuben went out into the fields and found some mandrake plants,^(B) which he brought to his mother Leah. Rachel said to Leah, “Please give me some of your son’s mandrakes.”

²³ So Ruth stayed close to the women of Boaz to glean until the barley^(A) and wheat harvests^(B) were finished. And she lived with her mother-in-law.

¹⁷ Is it not wheat harvest^(A) now? I will call^(B) on the Lord to send thunder^(C) and rain.^(D) And you will realize what an evil^(E) thing you did in the eyes of the Lord when you asked for a king.”