Rye in Biblical History

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What is Rye?
RYE
This word occurs in Ex 9:32 and Isa 28:25. The same Hebrew noun is translated "fitches" in Eze 4:9. Rye being a northern grain and rarely cultivated in the East even in our day, Celsius' view is universally accepted - that in all these passages the reference is to spelt (Triticum spelta), a grass closely resembling wheat and long cultivated in the Levant. Though the flour of its grain is inferior to that of the latter, it is mixed with it for bread. Spelt seems to have been sown later than wheat, on the border or headland of the field, to which there is reference in the word "place" of Isa 28:25. __________________________________________________________________ S.

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