Corn:
The most common kinds were wheat, barley, spelt, (Authorized Version Exodus 9:32 and Isaiah 28:25) "Rye;" (Ezekiel 4:9). "fitches" and millet; oats are mentioned only by rabbinical writers. Our Indian corn was unknown in Bible times. Corn‐crops are still reckoned at twenty‐fold what was sown, and were anciently much more (Genesis 41:22). The Jewish law permitted any one in passing through a filed of standing corn to pluck and eat (Deuteronomy 23:25; see also Matt 12:1) From Solomon's time (2 Chronicles 2:10; 2:15) as agriculture became developed under a settled government, Palestine was a corn‐exporting country, and her grain was largely taken by her commercial neighbor Tyre (Ezekiel 27:17; compare Amos 8:5).
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