Isaiah 28:25

Bible in Basic English (1941)

When the face of the earth has been levelled, does he not put in the different sorts of seed, and the grain in lines, and the barley in its place, and the spelt at the edge?

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  • Exod 9:31-32 : 31 And the flax and the barley were damaged, for the barley was almost ready to be cut and the flax was in flower. 32 But the rest of the grain-plants were undamaged, for they had not come up.
  • Ezek 4:9 : 9 And take for yourself wheat and barley and different sorts of grain, and put them in one vessel and make bread for yourself from them; all the days when you are stretched on your side it will be your food.
  • Matt 23:23 : 23 A curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! for you make men give a tenth of all sorts of sweet-smelling plants, but you give no thought to the more important things of the law, righteousness, and mercy, and faith; but it is right for you to do these, and not to let the others be undone.

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  • 24 Is the ploughman for ever ploughing? does he not get the earth ready and broken up for the seed?

  • Isa 28:26-28
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    26 For his God is his teacher, giving him the knowledge of these things.

    27 For the fitches are not crushed with a sharp instrument, and a cart-wheel is not rolled over the cummin; but the grain of the fitches is hammered out with a stick, and of the cummin with a rod.

    28 Is the grain for bread crushed? He does not go on crushing it for ever, but he lets his cart-wheels and his horses go over it without crushing it.

  • Isa 30:23-24
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    23 And he will give rain for your seed, so that you may put it in the earth; and you will have bread from the produce of the earth, good and more than enough for your needs: in that day the cattle will get their food in wide grass-lands.

    24 And the oxen and the young asses which are used for ploughing, will have salted grain which has been made free from the waste with fork and basket.

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    26 And he said, Such is the kingdom of God, as if a man put seed in the earth,

    27 And went to sleep and got up, night and day, and the seed came to growth, though he had no idea how.

    28 The earth gives fruit by herself; first the leaf, then the head, then the full grain.

  • 7 He who gets in the grain has no use for it; and they do not make bands of it for the grain-stems.

  • 17 The grains have become small and dry under the spade; the store-houses are made waste, the grain-stores are broken down; for the grain is dry and dead.

  • 37 And put seed in the fields and make vine-gardens, to give them fruit.

  • 5 A man went out to put in seed, and while he was doing it, some was dropped by the wayside and it was crushed under foot, and was taken by the birds of heaven.

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    27 And the servants of the master of the house came and said to him, Sir, did you not put good seed in your field? how then has it evil plants?

    28 And he said, Someone has done this in hate. And the servants say to him, Is it your pleasure that we go and take them up?

    29 But he says, No, for fear that by chance while you take up the evil plants, you may be rooting up the grain with them.

    30 Let them come up together till the getting in of the grain; and then I will say to the workers, Take up first the evil plants, and put them together for burning: but put the grain into my store-house.

    31 He put another story before them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like a grain of mustard seed which a man took and put in his field:

  • 9 Do not have your vine-garden planted with two sorts of seed: or all of it may become a loss, the seed you have put in as well as the increase.

  • 25 When you go into your neighbour's field, you may take the heads of grain with your hand; but you may not put your blade to his grain.

  • 25 The grass comes up and the young grass is seen, and the mountain plants are got in.

  • 9 And when you get in the grain from your land, do not let all the grain be cut from the edges of the field, or take up what has been dropped on the earth after the getting in of the grain.

  • 27 To give water to the land where there is waste and destruction, and to make the dry land green with young grass?

  • 38 You will take much seed out into the field, and get little in; for the locust will get it.

  • 3 A man went out to put seed in the earth:

  • 12 Will the ox of the mountains be your servant? or is his night's resting-place by your food-store?

  • 14 The seed is the word.

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    24 And he gave them another story, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like a man who put good seed in his field:

    25 But while men were sleeping, one who had hate for him came and put evil seeds among the grain, and went away.

  • 31 And the flax and the barley were damaged, for the barley was almost ready to be cut and the flax was in flower.

  • 11 In the day of your planting you were watching its growth, and in the morning your seed was flowering: but its fruit is wasted away in the day of grief and bitter sorrow.

  • 6 In the morning put your seed into the earth, and till the evening let not your hand be at rest; because you are not certain which will do well, this or that--or if the two will be equally good.

  • 37 And when you put it into the earth, you do not put in the body which it will be, but only the seed, of grain or some other sort of plant;

  • 12 Put in the seed of righteousness, get in your grain in mercy, let your unploughed earth be turned up: for it is time to make search for the Lord, till he comes and sends righteousness on you like rain.

  • 10 You make the ploughed lands full of water; you make smooth the slopes: you make the earth soft with showers, sending your blessing on its growth.

  • 10 And he who gives seed for putting into the field and bread for food, will take care of the growth of your seed, at the same time increasing the fruits of your righteousness;

  • 10 Or has he us in mind? Yes, it was said for us; because it is right for the ploughman to do his ploughing in hope, and for him who is crushing the grain to do his work hoping for a part in the fruits of it.

  • 10 For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven, and does not go back again, but gives water to the earth, and makes it fertile, giving seed to the planter, and bread for food;

  • 31 It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is put in the earth, is smaller than all the seeds on the earth,

  • 20 And if you say, Where will our food come from in the seventh year, when we may not put in seed, or get in the increase

  • 5 For before the time of getting in the grapes, after the opening of the bud, when the flower has become a grape ready for crushing, he will take away the small branches with knives, cutting down and taking away the wide-stretching branches.

  • 25 And they will send out the oxen and the sheep on all the hills which before were worked with the spade, ... fear of blackberries and thorns.

  • 14 He makes the grass come up for the cattle, and plants for the use of man; so that bread may come out of the earth;

  • 6 But in the Writings it says, He who puts in only a small number of seeds, will get in the same; and he who puts them in from a full hand, will have produce in full measure from them.

  • 4 And while he did so, some seeds were dropped by the wayside, and the birds came and took them for food:

  • 11 The farmers are shamed, the workers in the vine-gardens give cries of grief, for the wheat and the barley; for the produce of the fields has come to destruction.

  • 6 They get mixed grain from the field, and they take away the late fruit from the vines of those who have wealth.

  • 3 For this is what the Lord says to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem: Get your unworked land ploughed up, do not put in your seeds among thorns.

  • 4 Do not keep the ox from taking the grain when he is crushing it.

  • 8 What I have seen is that those by whom trouble has been ploughed, and evil planted, get the same for themselves.