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Winepress (cross section and top view)

Winepress (cross section and top view)


‎Ripe grapes are put in the left basin (a) wherein they are trodden with bare feet. The juice from the squashed grapes flows through a groove (b) into the right basin (c), from where it is filled into jugs. The overflowing juice collects itself at the deepest place (d). Wine presses like that were cut out of the rock in order to prevent the juice from seeping down into the ground.
‎Num 18:27, 18:30; Deut 15:14; 16:13; Neh 13:15; Job 24:11; Prov 3:10; Isa 5:2; 16:10; 63:3; Jer 25:30; Lam 1:15; Hos 9:2; Joel 2:24; 3:13; Haggai 2:16; Sirach 33:16–17; Matt 21:33; Mark 12:1; Rev 14:19–20

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