# General Information:
Yahweh continues to speak against the false prophetesses in Israel.
# handfuls of barley and crumbs of bread
Barley is a grain used to make bread and the word "crumb" is a small amount of bread. Both phrases are small amounts of food and are used to emphasize how small the payment was to the prophetesses. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-parallelism]])