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23 Listen to what I am saying; pay attention to what I am telling you.
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23 Listen and hear my voice; pay attention and hear what I say.
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24 Farmers don't constantly plow their fields and keep getting them ready for planting.
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24 When a farmer plows for planting, does he plow continually? Does he keep on breaking up and harrowing the soil?
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25 Once they have prepared the soil, they plant the seeds of herbs such as dill and cumin. They plant rows of wheat and barley, and at the edges of their fields they plant other grain.
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25 When he has leveled the surface, does he not sow caraway and scatter cummin? Does he not plant wheat in its place, barley in its plot, and spelt in its field?
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26 They know how to do their work, because God has taught them.
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26 His God instructs him and teaches him the right way.
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27 They never use a heavy club to beat out dill seeds or cumin seeds; instead they use light sticks of the proper size.
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27 Caraway is not threshed with a sledge, nor is a cartwheel rolled over cummin; caraway is beaten out with a rod, and cummin with a stick.
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28 They do not ruin the wheat by threshing it endlessly, and they know how to thresh it by driving a cart over it without bruising the grains.
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28 Grain must be ground to make bread; so one does not go on threshing it forever. Though he drives the wheels of his threshing cart over it, his horses do not grind it.
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29 All this wisdom comes from the Lord Almighty. The plans God makes are wise, and they always succeed.
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29 All this also comes from the LORD Almighty, wonderful in counsel and magnificent in wisdom.
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| Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission. (Good News Translation w/ Apocrypha) |
Scripture quoted by permission. Quotations designated (NIV) are from THE HOLY BIBLE: NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®. NIV®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by Biblica. All rights reserved worldwide. (New International Version Bible Online) |
