Thematic Bible: For plowing


Thematic Bible



Certainly Ephraim's words of grief have come to my ears, You have given me training and I have undergone it like a young cow unused to the yoke: let me be turned and come back, for you are the Lord my God.

So he went away from there and came across Elisha, the son of Shaphat, ploughing with twelve yoke of oxen, he himself walking with the twelfth; and Elijah went up to him and put his robe on him.

Happy are you who are planting seed by all the waters, and sending out the ox and the ass.

And at their first attack, Jonathan and his servant put to the sword about twenty men, all inside the space of half an acre of land.

Where there are no oxen, their food-place is clean; but much increase comes through the strength of the ox.


Basic English, produced by Mr C. K. Ogden of the Orthological Institute - public domain