Isaiah 28:25

Is it not so? that, when he hath made level its surface he scattereth fennel, and streweth about cumin, and planteth the wheat in rows, and barley on its assigned [place], and millet on its proper spot?

Leeser Tanakh

In The King James Version

When he hath made plain the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in the principal wheat and the appointed barley and rie in their place?

In Context

24Doth the ploughman plough all the time to sow? doth he open and harrow his ground [continually]?

26For his God instructed him rightly, taught him [so to do].

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Cross References

Exodus 9:31And the flax and the barley were smitten; for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was bolled.

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 28:24-29

Husbandry a Divine Art. ( b. c. 725.) 23 Give ye ear, and hear my voice; hearken, and hear my speech. 24 Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break the clods of his ground? 25 When he hath made plain the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in the principal wheat and the appointed barley and the rie in their place? 26 For his God doth instruct him to discretion, and doth teach him. 27 For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument,… Read the whole commentary →

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