Thematic Bible: Implements of


Thematic Bible



Let seven weeks be numbered from the first day when the grain is cut.

When you go into your neighbour's field, you may take the heads of grain with your hand; but you may not put your blade to his grain.


So now, take and make ready a new cart, and two cows which have never come under the yoke, and have the cows yoked to the cart, and take their young ones away from them:

For the fitches are not crushed with a sharp instrument, and a cart-wheel is not rolled over the cummin; but the grain of the fitches is hammered out with a stick, and of the cummin with a rod. Is the grain for bread crushed? He does not go on crushing it for ever, but he lets his cart-wheels and his horses go over it without crushing it.


But all the Israelites had to go to the Philistines to get their ploughs and blades and axes and hooks made sharp;

And they will send out the oxen and the sheep on all the hills which before were worked with the spade, ... fear of blackberries and thorns.


In whose hand is the instrument with which he will make clean his grain; he will put the good grain in his store, but the waste will be burned up in the fire which will never be put out.

And the oxen and the young asses which are used for ploughing, will have salted grain which has been made free from the waste with fork and basket.


For before the time of getting in the grapes, after the opening of the bud, when the flower has become a grape ready for crushing, he will take away the small branches with knives, cutting down and taking away the wide-stretching branches.

Get your plough-blades hammered into swords, and your vine-knives into spears: let the feeble say, I am strong.


And he took the people out of the town and put them to work with wood-cutting instruments, and iron grain-crushers, and iron axes, and at brick-making: this he did to all the towns of the children of Ammon. Then David and all the people went back to Jerusalem.


But all the Israelites had to go to the Philistines to get their ploughs and blades and axes and hooks made sharp;


For they had instruments for putting an edge on their ploughs and blades and forks and axes, and for putting iron points on their ox-driving rods.


But all the Israelites had to go to the Philistines to get their ploughs and blades and axes and hooks made sharp;


See, I will make you like a new grain-crushing instrument with teeth, crushing the mountains small, and making the hills like dry stems.


For the fitches are not crushed with a sharp instrument, and a cart-wheel is not rolled over the cummin; but the grain of the fitches is hammered out with a stick, and of the cummin with a rod.


And the oxen and the young asses which are used for ploughing, will have salted grain which has been made free from the waste with fork and basket.


For see, I will give orders, and I will have Israel moved about among all the nations, as grain is moved about by the shaking of the tray, but not the smallest seed will be dropped on the earth.


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