Isaiah 28:25
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?
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.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- 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.
- KJV
- 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?
- WEB
- 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
- 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?
- DARBY
- Doth he not, when he hath levelled the face thereof, cast abroad dill, and scatter cummin, and set the wheat in rows, and the barley in an appointed place, and the rye in its border?
- BLB
- Does he not, when he has leveled its face, then scatter caraway and sow cummin and put in a row the wheat in the appointed place and the barley and the spelt at its border?
- ÅB
- Når han har jevnet sin åker, spreder han da ikke ut dill og karve og sår hvete i rader og bygg på avmerket sted og spelt i kanten?
- OTB
- Når han har jevnet overflaten, sår han ikke da dill og sprer karve, og planter hvete i rekker, bygg på sin plass, og rug i sitt område?
- B1930
- Når han har jevnet sin aker, spreder han da ikke ut dill og karve og sår hvete i rader og bygg på avmerket sted og spelt i kanten?
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Ezekiel 4:9
Take 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.
Read in contextMatthew 23:23
Woe 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.
Read in contextExodus 9:31–32
And the flax and the barley was smitten: for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was bolled.
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