Sickling and Bundling
Unlike modern motorized reaping machinery, Egyptian reapers cut wheat and most other grains a few inches below the head rather than near ground level. This process facilitated the separate harvest of the stalks, which were then used as animal bedding and fodder and as a binder for mud bricks. The sheaves consisted of multiple bundles of cut grain tied together with the heads in each bundle lying against the stalks of another bundle. The sickles shown here are metal.
Deut 16:9, Deut 23:25, Deut 24:19, Ruth 2:1–9, 1 Sam 13:20, Ps 129:5–7, Rev 14:14–20
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