I will humbly bow out of this discussion tonight, because, obviously I have done something to offend you.
You are the one that made the absurd assumption that they pressed oil in the fields and then brought it in....
Helen is right...
Have a wonderful night...
God said it, take it up with Him if you think its absurb.
Deuteronomy, chapter 11
13: And it shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken diligently unto my commandments which I command you this day, to love
the LORD your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,
14: That I will give you the rain of your land in his due season, the first rain and the latter rain,
that thou mayest gather in
thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil.
Oh, by the way, this is where you can read that they made the wine by sqeezing in bags.
http://showcase.netins.net/web/ankh/wine.html
There were many different forms of wine presses. The most simple consisted mainly of a bag, in which the grapes were put and squeezed. This was done by the means of two poles that turned in opposite directions, a vat was then placed beneath it to collect the juices. There were also other types of wine presses. One example of a larger type of wine press was the foot press, such as one that had been found in Lower Egypt. Some of wine presses that have been discovered were highly ornamented and consisted of at least two distinct and separate parts. This was the lower portion or vat and the trough. This is where the workers, usually men with bare feet would crush and stomp the fruit. They would support themselves in this part of the press by means of ropes suspended from the roof. From their great height, some of these may have had an intermediate reservoir which would have probably received the juice on its way to a pipe that was connected to a strainer or column. This devisement is similar to that which was used by the Romans. It is also possible that footpress may also have been used as a first process in the making of the wine and then re-pressed via the twisted bag pressing as has been illustrated in various tomb paintings.
Tinytim;
I just noticed the word in Hebrew for corn can also be translated as mill, or wheat.... sooooo
Did they grind the corn in the fields also before they brought it in?
Corn=
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[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]From an unused root (meaning to be tender); green, i.e. A young ear of grain; hence, the name of the month Abib or Nisan
Abib, ear, green
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