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Title: The popular and critical Bible encyclopædia and Scriptural dictionary, fully defining and explaining all religious terms, including biographical, geographical, historical, archaeological and doctrinal themes
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Fallows, Samuel, 1835-1922 Zenos, Andrew C. (Andrew Constantinides), 1855-1942, joint ed Willett, Herbert L. (Herbert Lockwood), 1864-1944, joint ed
Subjects: Bible
Publisher: Chicago : The Howard-Severance company
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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m that theone was the earlier and the other the later in-strument. One was very much like our commonreaping-/j00&, while the other had more resem-blance in its shape to a scythe, and in the Egyptianexamples appears to have been toothed. Thislast is probably the same as the Hebrew meggol,which is indeed rendered by scythe in the marginof Jer. 1 :i6. The reapers were the owners andtheir children men-servants and women-servants,and day-laborers (Ruth ii -.4, 6, 21, 23; Johniv:36; James v:4). Refreshments were providedfor them, especially drink, of which the gleanerswere allowed to partake (Ruth ii:o). So in theEgyptian harvest-scenes, we perceive a provisionof water in skins, hung against trees, or in jarsupon stands, with the reapers drinking, and glean-ers applying to share the draught. Among theIsraelites, gleaning was one of the stated pro-visions for the poor: and for their benefit thecorners of the field were left unreaped, and thereapers might not return for a forgotten sheaf.
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Thrashing Corn with Oxen. AGRICULTURE 73 AHAB The gleaners, however, were to obtain in the firstplace the express permission of the proprietor orhis steward (Lev. xix :q, io; Dcut. xxiv:io;Ruth ii:2, 7). (7) Thrashing. The ancient mode of thrash-ing, as described in Scripture and figured on theEgyptian monuments, is still preserved in Pales-tine. Formerly the sheaves were conveyed fromthe field to the thrashing-floor in carts; but nowthey are borne, generally, on the backs of camelsand asses. The thrashing-floor is a level plot ofground, of a circular shape, generally about fiftyfeet in diameter, prepared for use by beatingdown the earth till a hard floor is formed (Gen.l:io; Judg. vi 137; 2 Sam. xxiv:i6, 24). Some-times several of these floors are contiguous toeach other. The sheaves are spread out uponthem; and the grain is trodden out by oxen,cows, and young cattle, arranged five abreast, anddriven in a circle, or rather in all directions, overthe floor. This was the common mode in

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