The popular and critical Bible encyclopædia and Scriptural dictionary, fully defining and explaining all religious terms, including biographical, geographical, historical, archaeological and doctrinal themes . 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 ch
The popular and critical Bible encyclopædia and Scriptural dictionary, fully defining and explaining all religious terms, including biographical, geographical, historical, archaeological and doctrinal themes . 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 , 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 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 (:io; Judg. vi 137; 2 Sam. xxiv:i6, 24). Some-times several of these floors are contiguous toeach other. The shea
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