28:27 Certainly 1 caraway seed is not threshed with a sledge,
nor is the wheel of a cart rolled over cumin seed. 2
Certainly caraway seed is beaten with a stick,
and cumin seed with a flail.
51:10 Did you not dry up the sea,
the waters of the great deep?
Did you not make 3 a path through the depths of the sea,
so those delivered from bondage 4 could cross over?
1 tn Or “For” (KJV, ASV, NASB).
2 sn Both of these seeds are too small to use the ordinary threshing techniques.
3 tn The Hebrew text reads literally, “Are you not the one who dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep, who made…?”
4 tn Heb “the redeemed” (so ASV, NASB, NIV, NRSV); KJV “the ransomed.”