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So now go and make a new cart. Get two cows that have calves and that have never had a yoke placed on them. Harness the cows to the cart, and take their calves from them back to their stalls.

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27 Certainly[a] caraway seed is not threshed with a sledge,
nor is the wheel of a cart rolled over cumin seed.[b]
Certainly caraway seed is beaten with a stick,
and cumin seed with a flail.[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 28:27 tn Or “For” (KJV, ASV, NASB).
  2. Isaiah 28:27 sn Both of these seeds are too small to use the ordinary threshing techniques.
  3. Isaiah 28:27 sn A flail was a hand-held threshing tool that had one stick as its handle and another swinging stick attached to its top. The swinging stick was used to beat the grain off of the stalks, which were laying on the ground.

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.

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