KJV 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 the rie in their place?
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Isaiah 28:25
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?
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
When he has leveled its surface, does he not sow caraway and scatter cumin? He plants wheat in rows and barley in plots, and rye within its border.
WEB World English Bible
When he has leveled its surface, doesn’t he plant the dill, and scatter the cumin seed, and put in the wheat in rows, the barley in the appointed place, and the spelt in its place?
ASV American Standard Version
When he hath levelled the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and put in the wheat in rows, and the barley in the appointed place, and the spelt in the border thereof?
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Hath he not, if he have made level its face, Then scattered fitches, and cummin sprinkle, And hath placed the principal wheat, And the appointed barley, And the rie in its own border?
Surrounding context — Isaiah 28
22 Now therefore be ye not mockers, lest your bands be made strong: for I have heard from the Lord GOD of hosts a consumption, even determined upon the whole earth.
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, neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the fitches are beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod.
28 Bread [corn] is bruised; because he will not ever be threshing it, nor break [it with] the wheel of his cart, nor bruise it [with] his horsemen.
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
הֲלוֹא֙H3808 · lonotאִם־H518 · imifשִׁוָּ֣הH7737 · sha.vahbe likeפָנֶ֔יהָH6440 · pa.nehface: beforeוְהֵפִ֥יץH6327 · putsto scatterקֶ֖צַחH7100 · qe.tsachdillוְכַמֹּ֣ןH3646 · kam.moncumminיִזְרֹ֑קH2236 · za.raqto scatterוְשָׂ֨םH7760 · sumto set: makeחִטָּ֤הH2406 · chit.tahwheatשׂוֹרָה֙H7795 · s.vo.rahrowוּשְׂעֹרָ֣הH8184 · se.o.rahbarleyנִסְמָ֔ןH5567 · sa.manto appointוְכֻסֶּ֖מֶתH3698 · kus.se.metryeגְּבֻלָתֽוֹ׃H1367 · ge.vu.lahborder
Cross-references
Ezekiel 4:9Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentiles, and millet, and fitches, and put them in one vessel, and make thee bread thereof, [according] to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon thy side, three hundred and ninety days shalt thou eat thereof.Matthew 23:23Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier [matters] of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.Exodus 9:31-32And the flax and the barley was smitten: for the barley [was] in the ear, and the flax [was] bolled.
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