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MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE BIBLE (AGRICULTURE) “PART 2 OF 2”

September 23, 2015Uncategorized1 corinthians, 1 Timothy, 12 tribes of Judah, agriculture, Bible, Daniel, Deuteronomy, expensive, Genesis, harvesting, Job, manners and customs, ploughing, ploughs, Psalm, reaping, Ruth, sowing, threshingabarkley8

PLOUGHING

Ploughing and sowing were often one operation. The grain was scattered from an open basket and replenished from a sack tied on the back of a donkey. It took about thirty pounds of seed to the half acre, although the Babylonians had invented a primitive seed drill that was in use in some places and was more economical with the seed. The seed was then ploughed in so that it would not be taken by the birds (Matthew 13:4). This method of

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MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE BIBLE (AGRICULTURE) “PART 1OF 2”

September 21, 2015Uncategorizedagriculture, Calendar, Canaan, crops, Deuteronomy, Egypt, Exodus, farmers, Gezer, Jewish, jonah, Judges, Luke, manners and customs, Nahum, Proverbs, yearsabarkley8

When the Jewish people entered Canaan and took up agriculture after the seminomadic life of forty years in the wilderness, they were entering into work that went back in their own history for hundreds of years and into a country that was extremely rich in plants. Ur of the Chaldees, where Abraham had come from, was sustained by healthy agricultural system based on irrigation ditches from the river bank, stone ploughshares, and flint

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