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101. Threshing Floors (#97637)
101. Threshing Floors
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Manners and Customs of the Bible
By:
James M. Freeman
Narrator:
Chris Genthree
Genesis 50:10
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Genesis 50:10
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And they came to the threshingfloor of Atad, which is beyond Jordan, and there they mourned with a great and very sore lamentation: and he made a mourning for his father seven days. (Genesis 50:10)
They came to the threshing-floor of Atad, which is beyond Jordan.
The “threshing-floor” was not a shed, or a building, or any place covered with roof and surrounded by walls, but a circular piece of ground from fifty to a hundred feet in diameter, in the open air, on elevated ground, and made smooth, hardy, and clean. Here the grain was threshed and winnowed.
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