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89. The Bowl

From: Manners and Customs of the Bible

By: James M. Freeman

Narrator: Chris Genthree

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Genesis 44:2²And put my cup, the silver cup, in the sack's mouth of the youngest, and his corn money. And he did according to the word that Joseph had spoken. (Genesis 44:2). Put my cup, the silver cup, in the sack’s mouth of the youngest.

The gabia, here rendered “cup,” was more properly a bowl, and was distinguished from the kosoth, or smaller cups, into which the liquid was poured from the gabia. The distinction is made in Jeremiah 35:5⁵And I set before the sons of the house of the Rechabites pots full of wine, and cups, and I said unto them, Drink ye wine. (Jeremiah 35:5), where the two words are used.

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