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Corn. The most common kinds were wheat, barley, spelt, Authorized Version, Exodus 9:32 and Isaiah 28:25, "rye;" Ezekiel 4:9, "fitches" and millet; oats are mentioned only by rabbinical writers. Our Indian corn was unknown in Bible times. Corn-crops are still reckoned at twentyfold what was sown, and were, anciently, much more. Genesis 41:22.

The Jewish law permitted any one in passing through a field of standing corn to pluck and eat. Deuteronomy 23:25. See also Matthew 12:1. From Solomon's time, 2 Chronicles 2:10; 2 Chronicles 2:15, as agriculture became developed, under a settled government, Palestine was a corn-exporting country, and her grain was largely taken by her commercial neighbor, Tyre. Ezekiel 27:17. Compare Amos 8:5.

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Smith, William, Dr. Entry for 'Corn'. Smith's Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​sbd/​c/corn.html. 1901.
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