24 When a farmer plows for planting, does he plow continually?
Does he keep on breaking up and harrowing the soil? |
25 When he has leveled the surface,
does he not sow caraway and scatter cummin? Does he not plant wheat in its place,4 28:25 The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain. barley in its plot,5 28:25 The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.
and spelt in its field? |
26 His God instructs him
and teaches him the right way. |
27 Caraway is not threshed with a sledge,
nor is a cartwheel rolled over cummin;
caraway is beaten out with a rod,
and cummin with a stick. |
28 Grain must be ground to make bread;
so one does not go on threshing it forever.
Though he drives the wheels of his threshing cart over it,
his horses do not grind it. |