Adolf Hult, Nehemiah Rebuilding Jerusalem, 1919.
Nehemiah 5 opens with noise. The men and their wives raise a great outcry against their fellow Jews. The complaints come in layers. Some say their families are large and they must get grain to stay alive. Others are mortgaging fields, vineyards, and homes to buy grain during the famine. Others have borrowed to pay the king’s tax. Some have already seen their children taken into servitude, and they are powerless to stop it because their fields and vineyards now belong to others.
Nehemiah, the governor, is furious. He accuses the nobles and officials of exacting interest from their own people, and he demands restitution. Return the fields, vineyards, olive groves, and houses, he says, along with the charge on money, grain, wine, and oil. The [NIV renders the amount as one percent](Bible Gateway passage: Nehemiah 5 - New International Version
Bible Gateway passage: Nehemiah 5 - New International Version Nehemiah Helps the Poor - Now the men and their wives raised a great outcry against their fellow Jews. Some were saying, “We and our sons and daughters are numerous; in order for us to eat and stay alive, we must get grain.” Others were saying, “We a
Some commentators understand a monthly charge, but the verse does not state the interval. The exact accounting need not be settled to see the demand. Give it back. Stop the exaction. The leaders agree.
Nobody burns incense in this passage. Grain, wine, and oil turn up in an account of hunger, mortgaged land, and charges on loans. That is a useful place to begin, because the symbolism has to survive the contact.
A note on words. Biblical passages here are paraphrased chiefly from the New International Version. Other translations are identified where the wording matters. The King James Version’s “corn” means grain in general, as it has throughout this series. Nobody has introduced maize.
The formula, and its conditions
The set recurs in Deuteronomy. The Hebrew terms dagan, tirosh, and yitshar are commonly rendered grain, new wine, and fresh oil. They appear together in Deuteronomy 7:13, 11:14, 12:17, 14:23, 18:4, and 28:51. The terms have their own ranges of meaning, and an English label is not a laboratory report on the contents. For this article, the repeated grouping matters more than a claim about the exact state of the wine or the grade of the oil.
The blessing is conditional, and it is dependent. In Deuteronomy 7, faithfulness to the covenant brings blessing on children, soil, grain, new wine, olive oil, and livestock. In [Deuteronomy 11:14](Bible Gateway passage: Deuteronomy 11:14 - New International Version
Bible Gateway passage: Deuteronomy 11:14 - New International Version then I will send rain on your land in its season, both autumn and spring rains, so that you may gather in your grain, new wine and olive oil.
the Lord promises rain in its season, autumn and spring, so that the people can gather their grain, new wine, and oil.
Notice what is and isn’t in the farmer’s hands. He plants, prunes, and presses, but the rain is not his to order. Abundance in this text arrives through a channel he doesn’t control.
The same goods are then claimed in advance, though not under one rule. [Deuteronomy 12](Bible Gateway passage: Deuteronomy 12 - New International Version
Bible Gateway passage: Deuteronomy 12 - New International Version The One Place of Worship - These are the decrees and laws you must be careful to follow in the land that the LORD, the God of your ancestors, has given you to possess—as long as you live in the land. Destroy completely all the places on the high moun
directs where the tithe and other designated offerings are to be eaten. [Deuteronomy 14](Bible Gateway passage: Deuteronomy 14 - New International Version
Bible Gateway passage: Deuteronomy 14 - New International Version Clean and Unclean Food - You are the children of the LORD your God. Do not cut yourselves or shave the front of your heads for the dead, for you are a people holy to the LORD your God. Out of all the peoples on the face of the earth, the LORD has cho
describes eating the tithe before the Lord and rejoicing with the household. Deuteronomy 18 gives the priests the firstfruits of grain, new wine, and olive oil, together with the first wool from the sheep. Tithes, firstfruits, and firstborn animals belong beside one another in these instructions, but they are not interchangeable names for the same obligation.
At the end of every third year, the produce takes a different route. The tithe of that year is to be stored locally so that the Levite, the foreigner, the orphan, and the widow can eat and be satisfied. [Deuteronomy 26:12](Bible Gateway passage: Deuteronomy 26 - New International Version
Bible Gateway passage: Deuteronomy 26 - New International Version Firstfruits and Tithes - When you have entered the land the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance and have taken possession of it and settled in it, take some of the firstfruits of all that you produce from the soil of the land the LORD your
repeats the instruction.
Read this way, and the interpretation is mine: having a harvest comes with claims attached to it. The grain is not all the grower’s to eat merely because he grew it.
The formula runs backward
The texts also contain the reverse. In Deuteronomy 28:51, an invading people eats the livestock and the land’s produce and leaves no grain, new wine, or oil. The same goods that mark blessing can be named in their absence.
[Joel 1](Bible Gateway passage: Joel 1 - New International Version
Bible Gateway passage: Joel 1 - New International Version The word of the LORD that came to Joel son of Pethuel. An Invasion of Locusts - Hear this, you elders; listen, all who live in the land. Has anything like this ever happened in your days or in the days of your ancestors? Tell it to your children, and
opens with locust devastation. The grain is destroyed, the new wine dries up, and the oil fails. Streams dry up too. The chapter calls for mourning, fasting, and an assembly. In verse 12, the failed trees and crops stand beside withered joy. That sounds close to the ceremonial language considered earlier in this series, but resemblance is all I am claiming.
In Joel 2, the movement reverses. The Lord promises grain, new wine, and olive oil, with threshing floors full and vats overflowing. The restoration is not an abstract improvement in spirits. There is something in the storehouse again.
[Haggai 1:9–11](Bible Gateway passage: Haggai 1:3-11 - New International Version
Bible Gateway passage: Haggai 1:3-11 - New International Version Then the word of the LORD came through the prophet Haggai: “Is it a time for you yourselves to be living in your paneled houses, while this house remains a ruin?” Now this is what the LORD Almighty says: “Give careful thought to your ways. You have p
is more explicit about the cause of the shortage. The people have attended to their own houses while the Lord’s house remains a ruin. The drought falls on land and hills, grain, new wine, and oil, on people and animals, and on the labor of their hands. The accusation and the failed harvest belong to the same argument.
[Hosea 2](Bible Gateway passage: Hosea 2 - New International Version
Bible Gateway passage: Hosea 2 - New International Version “Say of your brothers, ‘My people,’ and of your sisters, ‘My loved one.’ Israel Punished and Restored - “Rebuke your mother, rebuke her, for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband. Let her remove the adulterous look from her face and the unfait
turns on misplaced thanks. She did not acknowledge the giver of grain, new wine, and oil; the silver and gold supplied to her were used for Baal. The giver announces that he will take back his grain and wine. English Bibles commonly number the first statement 2:8, while Hebrew numbering places it at 2:10. That is worth knowing if you chase the reference.
These are different situations, and their explanations are not identical. Deuteronomy places invasion within a covenant curse. Haggai connects drought with neglect of the temple. Hosea describes gifts unacknowledged and wealth used for Baal. Joel gives devastated fields and a summons to lament. Putting them in one paragraph does not turn them into one account of why a crop fails.
Nor does faithfulness always arrive with a full storehouse. [Habakkuk 3:17–18](Bible Gateway passage: Habakkuk 3 - New International Version
Bible Gateway passage: Habakkuk 3 - New International Version Habakkuk’s Prayer - A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet. On shigionoth. LORD, I have heard of your fame; I stand in awe of your deeds, LORD. Repeat them in our day, in our time make them known; in wrath remember mercy. God came from Teman, the Holy One
imagines the fig tree failing, the vines empty, the olive crop disappointing, and the fields yielding no food. The speaker rejoices anyway. The surrounding prayer is not free of wrath or invasion. The narrower point is enough: these verses do not make a successful harvest the condition of trust.
Where responsibility comes in
Back to Nehemiah, because it shows what the formulas don’t. The famine is real, but the outcry is not simply that the land has produced too little. Some people are borrowing to eat. Others are borrowing to pay taxes. Some are losing control of their land and their children. The chapter puts lenders and borrowers in the same community, and the pressure does not fall on them equally.
My reading is that this makes the passage about distribution at least as much as about weather. A failed harvest is one difficulty. The terms on which a hungry neighbor can obtain food are another.
Nehemiah says that he, his brothers, and his men are lending money and grain too. He does not place himself outside the arrangement before telling others to change it. He calls for an end to the exaction and the return of property.
The chapter has an oath, priests, praise, and a concluding prayer. But none of those takes the place of the material demand. The fields have to go back. The charge has to stop. The religious language is not offered as a substitute.
The [NABRE’s note on the chapter](Nehemiah 5 | NABRE Bible - Bible App
Nehemiah 5 | NABRE Bible - Bible App Social and Economic Problems. #:1] Jer 34:8–22. Then there rose a great outcry of the people and their wives against certain of their Jewish kindred.#:1] Certain of their Jewish kindred: probab
connects the interest charged to kin with the prohibition in Deuteronomy 23:20. That is a later editorial explanation, identified as such, not a sentence Nehemiah pauses to supply.
Abundance in these passages is rarely private comfort. It is tied to rain no one controls, to portions owed, and to what the well-off do with a neighbor’s hunger.
A near-triad in the New Testament
[Revelation 6:6](Revelation 6:6 - NIV - Then I heard what sounded lik... | Christianity.com
Revelation 6:6 - NIV - Then I heard what sounded lik... | Christianity.com Revelation 6:6 : Then I heard what sounded like a voice among the four living creatures, saying, Two poundsOr about 1 kilogram of wheat for a days wages,Greek a denarius and six poundsOr about 3 kilograms of barley for a days wages,
is the passage to examine before calling the New Testament grouping the same formula. A voice among the four living creatures announces prices: a measure of wheat for a denarius, three measures of barley for a denarius, and an instruction not to damage the oil and wine. The denarius is commonly explained as approximately a laborer’s day’s wage.
This is close to the earlier set, but it is not identical. Wheat and barley are named separately, followed by oil and wine. The setting is a price announcement, not a harvest blessing.
Translation matters here. Most versions preserve an instruction not to harm or damage the oil and wine. The Message gives “all the oil and wine you want.” That makes availability explicit where the other versions retain a prohibition. It is a freer rendering, and the difference matters if the argument rests on the words.
What the exemption means is disputed. John Gill’s Exposition of the Bible reads the scarcity as falling on necessary bread while oil and wine are spared. He also records legal and allegorical alternatives. Those are interpretations with an author attached, not several meanings the verse has conveniently confirmed.
Gill’s description of oil and wine as things people can do without should not be mistaken for a complete account of ancient diets. They have already done too much work in this series to be dismissed quite that easily.
Still, his reading makes the contrast bleak. A laborer’s earnings disappear into staple food while oil and wine remain outside the announced damage. That is one way of reading the scene. The instruction itself tells us what is spared, not why.
The Qur’an’s provision
The Qur’an offers neighboring material, not identical material. The passages considered here do not repeat the same three-part formula. They offer wider lists of provision.
Surah 23:20 speaks of a tree growing from Mount Sinai that supplies oil and a condiment for those who eat. Ibn Kathir’s commentary identifies it as the olive and links the discussion to 16:11, where rain brings crops, olives, date palms, grapes, and other fruits.
The commentary also cites a report urging people to use olive oil as food and for anointing because it comes from a blessed tree. The report appears in Sunan Ibn Majah 3319, where the edition presented by Sunnah.com gives the grading “Sahih (Darussalam).” That is an identified grading, not a claim that every scholar has assessed every transmission in the same way.
Surah 80:24–32 begins with an instruction to consider food. Rain falls, the earth opens, and the list follows: grain, grapes, greens, olives, palms, orchards, fruit, and fodder, as provision for people and animals. The passage starts with something familiar on the plate and takes the reader back through what made it possible.
Grapes in an agricultural list are not the same category as wine. The earthly intoxicant has its own prohibition in Surah 5:90–91; wine in the description of Paradise appears in another setting in 47:15. The distinction cannot be rubbed out just to make the lists line up.
So the comparison is limited. Both the Hebrew and the Qur’anic passages connect agricultural provision with rain. Similarity of imagery does not establish borrowing, and the Qur’anic lists examined here are wider than the Deuteronomic formula. They deserve to be read in their own arrangement.
This article follows selected passages and a few named commentaries. It is not a survey of everything later Jewish, Christian, and Islamic readers have made of them.
What gets lost when the symbol floats
The public cornerstone accounts examined earlier in this series attach short explanations to the materials: nourishment, refreshment, joy, peace, comfort. Those explanations have their place. They are not a summary of everything scripture does with the goods.
The texts set grain, wine, and oil beside tithes and debts, in curses and laments, as prices and as charges on loans. A symbol that keeps only the blessing has left the harder passages outside the door.
That is the argument for reading closely. Grain, wine, and oil in scripture aren’t props for a single meaning. They are the stuff a community lives on, and so they show up wherever a community’s obligations, fears, and failures show up.
The symbol does not become less useful when the debts and duties come back into view. It becomes less comfortable. Nourishment is easy to praise in a ceremony. It is harder to explain why the person who needs it has had to mortgage a field.
If a tradition treats basic goods as morally charged, the charge probably says something about us. Who holds claims on what we harvest? What do we owe before we eat? And when the rain doesn’t come, who goes without first?
Source notes
Image source: Adolf Hult, Nehemiah Rebuilding Jerusalem, illustration in Bible Primer, Old Testament, for Use in the Primary Department of Sunday Schools (Rock Island, Ill.: Augustana Book Concern, 1919), digitized by the Library of Congress.
Translation and scope
Biblical passages are paraphrased chiefly from the NIV. Other translations are identified when their wording is discussed. Qur’anic passages are paraphrased from the linked texts and distinguished from the commentary accompanying them.
The article separates textual description, attributed commentary, and the author’s interpretation. Similar agricultural imagery is not treated as evidence of historical borrowing or of the origin of a Masonic ceremony.
Nehemiah: borrowing, exaction, and restitution
- Nehemiah 5, NIV, via Bible Gateway. Source for the complaints, mortgaged property, borrowing, servitude, restitution, oath, praise, and concluding prayer. The NIV renders the amount in verse 11 as one percent; the verse does not specify a monthly or annual interval.[1]
- Nehemiah 5:11, collected commentaries via BibleHub. Source for the older interpretation of the hundredth as a monthly charge and for the distinction between the stated amount and an inferred interval.[2]
- Nehemiah 5, NABRE, via Bible.com. Source for the edition’s note connecting interest charged to kin with Deuteronomy 23:20.[3]
Deuteronomy: the recurring goods and their claims
- Deuteronomy 7:13, Hebrew text and translation resources via BibleHub. One occurrence of the agricultural grouping discussed in the article.
- Deuteronomy 11:14, translation comparison via Bible Gateway. Source for seasonal rain and the gathering of grain, wine, and oil.
- [Deuteronomy 12, NIV, via Bible Gateway](Bible Gateway passage: Deuteronomy 12 - New International Version
Bible Gateway passage: Deuteronomy 12 - New International Version The One Place of Worship - These are the decrees and laws you must be careful to follow in the land that the LORD, the God of your ancestors, has given you to possess—as long as you live in the land. Destroy completely all the places on the high moun
Source for the place of consumption of tithes and other designated offerings.[4]
- [Deuteronomy 14, NIV, via Bible Gateway](Bible Gateway passage: Deuteronomy 14 - New International Version
Bible Gateway passage: Deuteronomy 14 - New International Version Clean and Unclean Food - You are the children of the LORD your God. Do not cut yourselves or shave the front of your heads for the dead, for you are a people holy to the LORD your God. Out of all the peoples on the face of the earth, the LORD has cho
Source for the annual tithe, household rejoicing, and the locally stored third-year tithe for Levites, foreigners, the fatherless, and widows.[5]
- Deuteronomy 18, NIV, via BibleProject. Source for priestly portions, including firstfruits of grain, new wine, and olive oil, and the first wool.[6]
- [Deuteronomy 26, NIV, via Bible Gateway](Bible Gateway passage: Deuteronomy 26 - New International Version
Bible Gateway passage: Deuteronomy 26 - New International Version Firstfruits and Tithes - When you have entered the land the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance and have taken possession of it and settled in it, take some of the firstfruits of all that you produce from the soil of the land the LORD your
Source for the third-year provision and its named beneficiaries.[7]
- Deuteronomy 28:51, NKJV, via BibleHub. Source for the invading people consuming livestock and agricultural produce.
Hebrew terminology
The article uses dagan, tirosh, and yitshar as the recurring terms commonly rendered grain, new wine, and fresh oil. The glosses are not intended to settle every question about processing or fermentation.
- Dagan, Hebrew lexical resources via BibleHub. Source for the cereal-grain sense.[8]
- Deuteronomy 7:13, collected commentaries via BibleHub. Discussion of the agricultural terms and their English renderings.[9]
- Hosea 2:22, lexical analysis via BibleHub. Another occurrence of the three terms in the agricultural grouping.[10]
Failed harvests and restoration
- [Joel 1, NIV, via Bible Gateway](Bible Gateway passage: Joel 1 - New International Version
Bible Gateway passage: Joel 1 - New International Version The word of the LORD that came to Joel son of Pethuel. An Invasion of Locusts - Hear this, you elders; listen, all who live in the land. Has anything like this ever happened in your days or in the days of your ancestors? Tell it to your children, and
Source for locust devastation, failed produce, dried streams, withered joy, and the summons to lament and fast. The article does not assign a specific offense as the cause of each loss.[11]
- [Joel 1–3, NIV, via Bible Gateway](Bible Gateway passage: Joel 1-3 - New International Version
Bible Gateway passage: Joel 1-3 - New International Version The word of the LORD that came to Joel son of Pethuel. An Invasion of Locusts - Hear this, you elders; listen, all who live in the land. Has anything like this ever happened in your days or in the days of your ancestors? Tell it to your children, and
See especially Joel 2:19 and 2:24 for restored grain, wine, and oil, full threshing floors, and overflowing vats.[12]
- [Haggai 1:3–11, NIV, via Bible Gateway](Bible Gateway passage: Haggai 1:3-11 - New International Version
Bible Gateway passage: Haggai 1:3-11 - New International Version Then the word of the LORD came through the prophet Haggai: “Is it a time for you yourselves to be living in your paneled houses, while this house remains a ruin?” Now this is what the LORD Almighty says: “Give careful thought to your ways. You have p
Source for the explicit connection between the ruined temple, the people’s own houses, and agricultural failure.[13]
- [Hosea 2, NIV, via Bible Gateway](Bible Gateway passage: Hosea 2 - New International Version
Bible Gateway passage: Hosea 2 - New International Version “Say of your brothers, ‘My people,’ and of your sisters, ‘My loved one.’ Israel Punished and Restored - “Rebuke your mother, rebuke her, for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband. Let her remove the adulterous look from her face and the unfait
Source for unacknowledged provision, silver and gold used for Baal, and the announced withdrawal of grain and wine. The edition’s numbering note explains the difference between English and Hebrew verse numbers.[14]
- [Habakkuk 3, NIV, via Bible Gateway](Bible Gateway passage: Habakkuk 3 - New International Version
Bible Gateway passage: Habakkuk 3 - New International Version Habakkuk’s Prayer - A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet. On shigionoth. LORD, I have heard of your fame; I stand in awe of your deeds, LORD. Repeat them in our day, in our time make them known; in wrath remember mercy. God came from Teman, the Holy One
See verses 17–18 for agricultural failure and rejoicing. The surrounding prayer includes wrath, deliverance, and invasion; the article does not describe the chapter as free of those themes.[15]
Revelation: prices and exempted goods
- [Revelation 6:6, translation comparison via Christianity.com](Revelation 6:6 - NIV - Then I heard what sounded lik... | Christianity.com
Revelation 6:6 - NIV - Then I heard what sounded lik... | Christianity.com Revelation 6:6 : Then I heard what sounded like a voice among the four living creatures, saying, Two poundsOr about 1 kilogram of wheat for a days wages,Greek a denarius and six poundsOr about 3 kilograms of barley for a days wages,
-Source for the announced grain prices, the day’s-wage explanation, and comparison with The Message.[16]
- Revelation 6:6, Greek text analysis via BibleHub. Source for the instruction conventionally rendered “do not harm” or “do not damage,” and the grain measure choinix.[17]
- John Gill, Exposition of the Bible, commentary on Revelation 6:6, via Bible Study Tools. Source for the attributed reading of scarcity affecting necessary bread while oil and wine are spared, and for alternative interpretations Gill reports. His characterization of the goods is not adopted as a comprehensive account of ancient consumption.[18]
Qur’anic provision and the olive-oil report
- Surah 16:11, via Quran.com. Source for crops, olives, palms, grapes, and other fruits produced through rain.[19]
- Surah 23:20 with Ibn Kathir’s commentary, via Quran.com. Source for the tree, oil, and condiment; the commentary’s identification of the olive; its connection with 16:11; and its citation of the olive-oil report. The verse and its commentary are distinct sources of information.[20]
- Surah 80:24–32, via Quran.com. Source for rain, the opening earth, and the wider list of agricultural provision for people and animals.[21]
- Sunan Ibn Majah 3319, via Sunnah.com. Source for the report concerning olive oil as food and anointing material. The page displays “Sahih (Darussalam)”; that grading is attributed to the edition presented, not asserted as universal agreement.[22]
- Surah 5:90–91 and 47:15 supply the separate contexts of prohibited earthly intoxicants and wine in the description of Paradise.
Relationship to the cornerstone series
The ceremonial explanations discussed in the earlier articles are used here as a point of comparison, not as a complete account of scriptural meanings. Joel’s association of agricultural loss with lost joy is treated as a literary resemblance, not proof that a ceremonial formula originated in that passage.
Sources [1] Nehemiah 5 NIV - Nehemiah Helps the Poor - Now the men ... Bible Gateway passage: Nehemiah 5 - New International Version
Bible Gateway passage: Nehemiah 5 - New International Version Nehemiah Helps the Poor - Now the men and their wives raised a great outcry against their fellow Jews. Some were saying, “We and our sons and daughters are numerous; in order for us to eat and stay alive, we must get grain.” Others were saying, “We a
[2] Nehemiah 5:11 Commentaries: "Please, give back to them this ... Nehemiah 5:11 Commentaries: Please, give back to them this very day their fields, their vineyards, their olive groves and their houses, also the hundredth part of the money and of the grain, the new wine and the oil that you are exacting from them.
Nehemiah 5:11 Commentaries: Please, give back to them this very day their fields, their vineyards, their olive groves and their houses, also the hundredth part of the money and of the grain, the new wine and the oil that you are exacting from them.
[3] Nehemiah 5 | NABRE Bible - Bible App Nehemiah 5 | NABRE Bible - Bible App
Nehemiah 5 | NABRE Bible - Bible App Social and Economic Problems. #:1] Jer 34:8–22. Then there rose a great outcry of the people and their wives against certain of their Jewish kindred.#:1] Certain of their Jewish kindred: probab
[4] Deuteronomy 12 NIV - The One Place of Worship - Bible Gateway Bible Gateway passage: Deuteronomy 12 - New International Version
Bible Gateway passage: Deuteronomy 12 - New International Version The One Place of Worship - These are the decrees and laws you must be careful to follow in the land that the LORD, the God of your ancestors, has given you to possess—as long as you live in the land. Destroy completely all the places on the high moun
[5] Deuteronomy 14 NIV - Clean and Unclean Food - Bible Gateway Bible Gateway passage: Deuteronomy 14 - New International Version
Bible Gateway passage: Deuteronomy 14 - New International Version Clean and Unclean Food - You are the children of the LORD your God. Do not cut yourselves or shave the front of your heads for the dead, for you are a people holy to the LORD your God. Out of all the peoples on the face of the earth, the LORD has cho
[6] Deuteronomy 18 NIV - Offerings for Priests and Levites - BibleProject Bible Project: Book of Deuteronomy 18 - New International Version
Bible Project: Book of Deuteronomy 18 - New International Version Offerings for Priests and LevitesThe Levitical priests—indeed, the whole tribe of Levi—are to have no allotment or inheritance with Israel.
[7] Deuteronomy 26 NIV - Firstfruits and Tithes - When you have Bible Gateway passage: Deuteronomy 26 - New International Version
Bible Gateway passage: Deuteronomy 26 - New International Version Firstfruits and Tithes - When you have entered the land the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance and have taken possession of it and settled in it, take some of the firstfruits of all that you produce from the soil of the land the LORD your
[8] Strong's Hebrew: 1715. דָּגָן (dagan) -- Grain, Corn Strongs Hebrew: 1715. דָּגָן (dagan) -- Grain, Corn
Strongs Hebrew: 1715. דָּגָן (dagan) -- Grain, Corn
[9] Deuteronomy 7:13 Commentaries: "He will love you and bless you ... Deuteronomy 7:13 Commentaries: He will love you and bless you and multiply you; He will also bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your new wine and your oil, the increase of your herd and the young of your flock,
Deuteronomy 7:13 Commentaries: He will love you and bless you and multiply you; He will also bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your new wine and your oil, the increase of your herd and the young of your flock,
[10] Hosea 2:22 Lexicon: And the earth will respond to the grain ... Hosea 2:22 Lexicon: And the earth will respond to the grain, to the new wine and to the oil, And they will respond to Jezreel.
Hosea 2:22 Lexicon: And the earth will respond to the grain, to the new wine and to the oil, And they will respond to Jezreel.
[11] Joel 1 NIV - The word of the LORD that came to Joel Bible Gateway passage: Joel 1 - New International Version
Bible Gateway passage: Joel 1 - New International Version The word of the LORD that came to Joel son of Pethuel. An Invasion of Locusts - Hear this, you elders; listen, all who live in the land. Has anything like this ever happened in your days or in the days of your ancestors? Tell it to your children, and
[12] Joel 1-3 NIV - The word of the LORD that came to Joel - Bible Gateway Bible Gateway passage: Joel 1-3 - New International Version
Bible Gateway passage: Joel 1-3 - New International Version The word of the LORD that came to Joel son of Pethuel. An Invasion of Locusts - Hear this, you elders; listen, all who live in the land. Has anything like this ever happened in your days or in the days of your ancestors? Tell it to your children, and
[13] Haggai 1:3-11 NIV - Then the word of the LORD came through Bible Gateway passage: Haggai 1:3-11 - New International Version
Bible Gateway passage: Haggai 1:3-11 - New International Version Then the word of the LORD came through the prophet Haggai: “Is it a time for you yourselves to be living in your paneled houses, while this house remains a ruin?” Now this is what the LORD Almighty says: “Give careful thought to your ways. You have p
[14] Hosea 2 NIV - “Say of your brothers, 'My - Bible Gateway Bible Gateway passage: Hosea 2 - New International Version
Bible Gateway passage: Hosea 2 - New International Version “Say of your brothers, ‘My people,’ and of your sisters, ‘My loved one.’ Israel Punished and Restored - “Rebuke your mother, rebuke her, for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband. Let her remove the adulterous look from her face and the unfait
[15] Habakkuk 3 NIV - Habakkuk's Prayer - A prayer of Bible Gateway passage: Habakkuk 3 - New International Version
Bible Gateway passage: Habakkuk 3 - New International Version Habakkuk’s Prayer - A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet. On shigionoth. LORD, I have heard of your fame; I stand in awe of your deeds, LORD. Repeat them in our day, in our time make them known; in wrath remember mercy. God came from Teman, the Holy One
[16] Revelation 6:6 Revelation 6:6 - NIV - Then I heard what sounded lik... | Christianity.com
Revelation 6:6 - NIV - Then I heard what sounded lik... | Christianity.com Revelation 6:6: Then I heard what sounded like a voice among the four living creatures, saying, Two poundsOr about 1 kilogram of wheat for a days wages,Greek a denarius and six poundsOr about 3 kilograms of barley for a days wages,
[17] Revelation 6:6 Greek Text Analysis - Bible Hub Revelation 6:6 Greek Text Analysis
Revelation 6:6 Greek Text Analysis
[18] Revelation 6:6 - and I heard what seemed to be a voice in the midst... Revelation 6:6 - RSV - and I heard what seemed to be a voice in the midst...
Revelation 6:6 - RSV - and I heard what seemed to be a voice in the midst... Revelation 6:6 and I heard what seemed to be a voice in the midst of the four living creatures saying, A quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius; but do not harm oil and wine!... Read verse in Revised Standard Versi
[19] Surah An-Nahl - 11 - Quran.com Surah An-Nahl Ayah 11 - Read, Listen, Translation, Tafsir - Quran.com
Surah An-Nahl Ayah 11 - Read, Listen, Translation, Tafsir - Quran.com Surah An-Nahl Ayah 11 - ينبت لكم به الزرع والزيتون والنخيل والاعناب ومن كل الثمرات ان في ذلك لاية لقوم يتفكرون
[20] Read Tafsir (Commentary) of Surah Al-Mu'minun 23:20 by Ibn Kathir ... Ibn Kathir (Abridged) Tafsir of Al-Muminun Ayah 20 - Quran.com
Ibn Kathir (Abridged) Tafsir of Al-Muminun Ayah 20 - Quran.com Allahs Signs and Blessings in the Rain, Vegetation, Trees and Cattle Allah mentions His innumerable blessings to His servants, whereby He sends down ...
[21] Surah 'Abasa - 24-32 - Quran.com Surah Abasa Ayahs 24-32 - Read, Listen, Translation, Tafsir - Quran.com
Surah Abasa Ayahs 24-32 - Read, Listen, Translation, Tafsir - Quran.com Surah Abasa Ayahs 24-32 - فلينظر الانسان الى طعامه
[22] Sunan Ibn Majah 3319 - Chapters on Food - كتاب الأطعمة Sunan Ibn Majah 3319 - Chapters on Food - كتاب الأطعمة - Sunnah.com - Sayings and Teachings of Prophet Muhammad (صلى الله عليه و سلم)
Sunan Ibn Majah 3319 - Chapters on Food - كتاب الأطعمة - Sunnah.com - Sayings and Teachings of Prophet Muhammad (صلى الله عليه و سلم) Hadith of the Prophet Muhammad (saws) in English and Arabic
Continue the Corn, Wine and Oil Series
This is the fifth article in the Corn, Wine and Oil series. Continue with “Readings, Not Equations” for the next stage of the discussion: how to approach the interpretation of these symbols.
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