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Will the ploughman plough all the day? or will he prepare the seed beforehand, before he tills the ground?
25
Does he not, when he has levelled the surface thereof, then sow the small black poppy, or cumin, and afterward sow wheat, and barley, and millet, and bread-corn in thy borders?
26
So thou shalt be chastened by the judgment of thy God, and shalt rejoice.
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For the black poppy is not cleansed with harsh treatment, nor will a wagon-wheel pass over the cumin; but the black poppy is threshed with a rod, and the cumin shall be eaten with bread;
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for I will not be wroth with you for ever, neither shall the voice of my anger crush you.
The Brenton translation of the Septuagint is in the public domain.