. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . Fig. 10.—The NSreg, a threshing machine nsed by the modern Egyptians.—(Fbn.) Fig. 9.—Reaping.—(Snrcnhuslua.) by the diivers weight, crushed out, often injuring,the grain, and cut or tore the Straw. (Chaff.)Lighter grains were beaten out with a stick ( 27). Barley was sometimes soaked and thenparched before treading out, which separated thepellicle of the grain. The use of animal manure isproved frequent by such expressionsas Dung upon the face of theearth, &c. (Ps. lxxxiii. 10; 2 K. ; Jer. viii. 2, &c.; see Forks).Winnowing.— The shov

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. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . Fig. 10.—The NSreg, a threshing machine nsed by the modern Egyptians.—(Fbn.) Fig. 9.—Reaping.—(Snrcnhuslua.) by the diivers weight, crushed out, often injuring,the grain, and cut or tore the Straw. (Chaff.)Lighter grains were beaten out with a stick ( 27). Barley was sometimes soaked and thenparched before treading out, which separated thepellicle of the grain. The use of animal manure isproved frequent by such expressionsas Dung upon the face of theearth, &c. (Ps. lxxxiii. 10; 2 K. ; Jer. viii. 2, &c.; see Forks).Winnowing.— The shovel and fan (Is. xxx. 24), the precise dif-ference of which is doubtful, indicatethe process of winnowing—an im-portant part of ancient husbandry(IV. i. 4, xxxv. 5; Job xxi. 18; 13). Evening was the favoritetime (Ru. iii. 2), when there wasmostly a breeze. The fan ( 12) was perhaps a broad shovelwhich threw the grain up againstthe wind. The last process was theshaking in a sieve to separate diitand refus

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