28:27 Certainly 4 caraway seed is not threshed with a sledge,
nor is the wheel of a cart rolled over cumin seed. 5
Certainly caraway seed is beaten with a stick,
and cumin seed with a flail.
28:28 Grain is crushed,
though one certainly does not thresh it forever.
The wheel of one’s wagon rolls over it,
but his horses do not crush it.
1 tn Heb “brought out.”
2 tn Heb “and so he would do.”
3 map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.
4 tn Or “For” (KJV, ASV, NASB).
5 sn Both of these seeds are too small to use the ordinary threshing techniques.