. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . second time; see Is. xxviii. 24) and fallows (Jer. • Hos. x. 12) were cleared of stones and of thorns(Is. v. 2) early in the year, sowing or gathering fromamon» thorns being a proverb for slovenlyhusbandry < Job v. 5 ; Prov. xxiv. 30, 31). Sowing the Mishna. Where the soil was heavier, the plough-ing was best done dry; but the formal routine ofheavy Western soils was not the standard of thenaturally fine tilth of Palestine generally. Seventydays before the passover was the time prescribed for. Fig. 4.—Grain growing in patches.—(SurenhuBius.)
. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . second time; see Is. xxviii. 24) and fallows (Jer. • Hos. x. 12) were cleared of stones and of thorns(Is. v. 2) early in the year, sowing or gathering fromamon» thorns being a proverb for slovenlyhusbandry < Job v. 5 ; Prov. xxiv. 30, 31). Sowing the Mishna. Where the soil was heavier, the plough-ing was best done dry; but the formal routine ofheavy Western soils was not the standard of thenaturally fine tilth of Palestine generally. Seventydays before the passover was the time prescribed for. Fig. 4.—Grain growing in patches.—(SurenhuBius.) sowing for the wave-sheaf, and probably, there-fore,for that of barley generally. (Barley; First - ,:. ; wjiijj Fig. 5.—Sowing.—(Surenhusiua.) Fruits ; Palestine ; Wheat.) The custom of watching ripening crops and threshing floors against theft or damage, is probably ancient (Ru. iii. 4, 7; Is. ).—The rotation of crops, familiar to the Egyp-tians, was probably known to the Hebrews. Sow-ing a field with divers seeds was forbidden ( 9), and minute directions are given by the rab- jj -X \ v 111 C It Fig. 6.—Sowing.—(SurenhuBius.) bis for arranging a seeded surface with great variety,as in figs. 5, 6, yet avoiding juxtaposition of differentkinds. Three furrows interval was the prescribedmargin. The blank spaces in fig. 5, a and b, repre-sent such margins, tapering to save ground. Widespaces were often left round vines and olive-trees,and the rest of the ground cropped, as in fig. and Threshing.—The whe
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