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‎This Egyptian picture illustrates the corn harvest that happened each spring. The reaper is grabbing the standing grain relatively high and cuts them with a sickle. Following him, another person is gathering the stalks. Stalks that fell loose were to be left in the field so that they the could be gathered by the poor.
‎Ruth 2:4–7; 2 Kings 4:18; Ps 129:7; Isa 17:5; Matt 13:30




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