Don't you say, 'There are yet four months until the harvest?' Behold, I tell you, lift up your eyes, and look at the fields, that they are white for harvest already.
As for the barley, that was sown in the months of Shebet and Adar, and usually in the latter y; the former of which answers to January and February, and the latter to February and March. And we read z of their sowing seventy days before the passover, which was within six weeks of the beginning of barley harvest.