OLD TESTAMENT

2 Samuel 17:19

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The woman took and spread the covering over the well’s mouth, and spread out crushed grain on it; and nothing was known.

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Verse 19. Barley, which was afterwards fried with oil, and eaten. Ptisanas may also denote wheat, and so forth Grana cantusa. Theodot.—“Figs.” Calmet.—Septuagint have the original (hariphoth) untranslated. Bible.

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