Sheaves
In those days saw I in Judah [some] treading wine presses on
the sabbath, and bringing in sheaves, and lading asses; as
also wine, grapes, and figs, and all [manner of] burdens,
which they brought into Jerusalem on the sabbath day: and I
testified [against them] in the day wherein they sold
victuals....
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Behold, I am pressed under you, as a cart is pressed [that is]
full of sheaves....
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And when she was risen up to glean, Boaz commanded his young
men, saying, Let her glean even among the sheaves, and
reproach her not:...
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And she said, I pray you, let me glean and gather after the
reapers among the sheaves: so she came, and hath continued
even from the morning until now, that she tarried a little in
the house....
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He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall
doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves
[with him]....
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Wherewith the mower filleth not his hand; nor he that bindeth
sheaves his bosom....
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But they know not the thoughts of the LORD, neither understand
they his counsel: for he shall gather them as the sheaves into
the floor....
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For, behold, we [were] binding sheaves in the field, and, lo,
my sheaf arose, and also stood upright; and, behold, your
sheaves stood round about, and made obeisance to my sheaf....
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Binding the grain into sheaves. The cut grain is gathered on the arms and bound into sheaves. The Psalmist makes a reference to the mower filling his hand, and the binder of sheaves filling his bosom (Psalm 129:7). And the Song of Solomon speaks of an heap of wheat (Song of Solomon 7:2), and Joseph in his dream saw "binding sheaves in the field" (G...
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Transportation of grain to the threshing floor. The usual method of transporting the grain to the threshing floor is as follows: two large bundles of the grain are made secure by a network of rope and then placed a few feet apart. Then a camel is made to kneel in the space between them, and then the bundles are fastened to the animal's packsaddle. ...
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