# At mealtime

This refers to the noontime meal.

# dip your morsel in the wine vinegar

This was a simple meal eaten in the field. People would sit on the ground around a cloth that had a bowl of wine vinegar on it and plates of broken bread. They would dip their bread in the vinegar bowl to wet it and add flavor before they ate it.

# wine vinegar

a sauce that bread was dipped in. The Israelites further fermented some of their wine to make vinegar.

# translationWords

* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/boaz]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/ruth]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/bread]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/wine]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/reap]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/grain]]