Harvesting
the season for gathering grain or fruit. On the 16th day of
Abib
(or April) a handful of ripe ears of corn was offered
as a
first-fruit before the Lord, and immediately after
this the
harvest commenced (Lev. 23:9-14; 2 Sam. 21:9, 10; Ruth
2:23). It
began with the feast of Passover and ended with
Pentecost, thus
lasting for seven weeks (Ex...
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Sabbath to be observed in
Ex 34:21
-Sabbath desecrated in
Ne 13:15-22
-Of wheat at Pentecost, in Palestine
Ex 34:22; Le 23:15-17
-And of wheat before harvest time
Le 26:5
-Of barley, before wheat
Ex 9:31,32
-Celebrated with joy
Jud 9:27; Isa 9:3; 16:10; Jer 48:33
-Promises of plentiful
Ge 8:22; Jer 5:24; Joe 2:23,24
-FIGURATIVE
Job 2...
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har'-vest (qatsir; therismos): To many of us, harvest time
is of little concern, because in our complex life we are far
removed from the actual production of our food supplies, but
for the Hebrew people, as for those in any agricultural
district today, the harvest was a most important season (Gen
8:22; 45:6). Events were reckoned from harvests...
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HARVESTING OF GRAPES
The vintage begins in the month of September in the Holy Land, and at this period, from ancient times, the inhabitants of many a village move out to the vineyards, where they live in tents or in
lodges. Concerning the men of Shechem, the Book of Judges says: "They went out into the fields, and gathered their vineyards" (Judge...
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THE FIG TREE
Three crops of figs in Israel. The early figs, not very many in number, but large in size, are ripe a month before the main crop; the summer or main crop is used in August and September; and the winter figs remain on the trees until late in the fall of the year. Mention is made in Scripture of the firstripe figs as being desirable (Ho...
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Harvesting the olive crop. The Arabs harvest their crop of olives in the Holy Land by beating the trees with sticks in order to knock off the fruit. Instead of hand picking them, they beat the limbs and thus cause the fruit to fall. The tender shoots that would ordinarily bear fruit the following year are thus apt to be damaged, so as to interfere ...
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Characteristics of the olive tree. The young olive tree only bears olives after seven years of growth, and it is about fourteen years before the crop reaches its maturity. Because of the injurious method of harvesting the olives by using sticks to knock off the fruit, the trees only bear a full crop every other year. Some twenty gallons of oil are ...
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