242. Rude Threshing

From: Manners and Customs of the Bible By: James M. Freeman

Ruth 2:17

Ruth 2:17¹⁷So she gleaned in the field until even, and beat out that she had gleaned: and it was about an ephah of barley. (Ruth 2:17). So she gleaned in the field until even, and beat out that she had gleaned.

This is still done by the gleaners at the close of their day’s work, sticks or stones being used as convenient though rude instruments for threshing the grain they have gathered.

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Manners and Customs of the Bible

• 240. Mutual Salutations

• 241. Vinegar Parched Corn

• 242. Rude Threshing

• 243. The Time for Winnowing

• 244. Watching the Grain

• 245. Sign of Marriage — The Goel

• 246. The Veil

• 247. The Sign of the Shoe

• 248. The Seat of Judgment

• 249. The Horn

• 250. Talismanic Images

• 251. Helmets Cuirasses

• 252. Greaves Javelin

• 253. Spear Large Shield.

• 254. Cheese Pledge

• 255. The Sword

• 256. Staff - Scrip - Sling

• 257. Princely Robes

• 258. Joy in Victory - Shalishim

• 259. Responsive Singing

• 260. Fleeing From the Dart

• 261. Use of the Term, "Naked"

• 262. Relatives Cursed

• 263. Valuables Wrapped in Clothes

• 264. The Speaker Mentioned First

• 265. Houses of the Dead

• 266. Chieftain's Spear Cruse

• 267. Armlets

• 268. Recess in Gateway

• 269. Beds for Biers