Rambles in Bible lands . ommanded the taskmasters ofthe people, and their officers, saying, Ye shall no moregive the people crashed strazv [teben] to make brick, asheretofore : let them go and gather crushed straw [teben]for themselves. And the measure [or number] of thebricks, which they did make heretofore, ye shall lay 1 Matt. xiii. 38. See also Jer. xxiii. 28. 2 Teben is always the picture of the unbelieving and unsaved. Jobcries of the ruin of the wicked : They are as crushed straw {teben) before the wind (Job x\i. 18) ; and Jeremiah in the same sense asks : What is the crushed straw {teb
Rambles in Bible lands . ommanded the taskmasters ofthe people, and their officers, saying, Ye shall no moregive the people crashed strazv [teben] to make brick, asheretofore : let them go and gather crushed straw [teben]for themselves. And the measure [or number] of thebricks, which they did make heretofore, ye shall lay 1 Matt. xiii. 38. See also Jer. xxiii. 28. 2 Teben is always the picture of the unbelieving and unsaved. Jobcries of the ruin of the wicked : They are as crushed straw {teben) before the wind (Job x\i. 18) ; and Jeremiah in the same sense asks : What is the crushed straw {teben) to the wheat? (Jer. xxiii. 28). 3 Pictured Palestine, by James Neil, , 4th edition, pp. 267-74(Messrs. J. Nisbet & Co.). JERUSALEM TO DOTHAN 2 2 1 upon them ; ye shall not diminish ought thereof. . .So the people were scattered abroad throughout all theland of Egypt to gather straw [or stubble—kash\ forthe crushed straw [tcbaf]^1 It was this crushed strawthat was required to mix with the clay to make sun-. THRESHING WHEAT ON THE OPEN-AIR THRESHING-FLOOR dried bricks, as is still the case in Egypt to thepresent It was now about two months to harvest,and they would not only have to hunt for last years 1 Exod. v. 6-8, i2. 2 Teben comes from the Hebrew root banah, he built, from itsuse in this way in brickmaking. 222 RAMBLES IN BIBLE LANDS straw in the few places where it still remained, but,when they had collected it, would further have tomanufacture it themselves into teben. In our versionthe English reader perceives only half their the officers of the children of Israel would under-stand that when they had managed to find ordinarystraw—a rare commodity at any time in Egypt, andthen it was almost a year since the last harvest—theyhad yet to crush it on the threshing-floors by a longand laborious process. Well might they see that theywere in evil case, after it was said, Ye shall not diminishought from your bricks of your daily Going along
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