列王紀下 4:42的塔木德參照：Jerusalem Talmud Nedarim

“Rebbi Meïr used to teach: It says, ‘A man came from Baal-Shalishah and brought to the man of God bread from first grain, etc⁸⁶2K. 4:42. He brought 20 barley-grain breads. Baal-Shalisha seems to have been near Jericho..’ At no place in the Land of Israel does produce ripen earlier than at Baal-Shalishah, and only that kind ripened early.” ‘He brought to the man of God,’ when did he bring it? After the ‘Omer ceremony⁸⁷The presentation of new barley, cf. Note 84., since it is said: ‘Give to the people to eat.’ “But since the year was in need of an intercalation, why did Elisha not intercalate? This teaches you that the year was one of famine and everybody was jumping to the threshing floors⁸⁸All grain was sold directly from the threshing floor because of its scarcity. The Babli, Sanhedrin 11b/12a and Tosephta Sanhedrin 2:9 state outright that “one does not intercalate in a year of famine.” A minority of sources in the Babli attributes the argument to Rebbi..”