The oxen likewise and the young asses that ear the ground shall eat clean provender, which hath been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan.
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Gill's Exposition
The oxen likewise and the young asses that ear the ground,.... Or till it; for though these might not be joined together in a yoke, yet they were made use of separately in ploughing land, Deu 22:10,…
Barnes' Notes
The young donkeys that ear the ground - Hebrew, ‘Labouring,’ or ‘cultivating the ground,’ that is, plowing it. The Old English word “ear” (from the Latin aro) meant to till, to cultivate. The word is…
The closing words of the foregoing paragraph (You shall be left as a beacon upon a mountain) some understand as a promise that a remnant of them should be reserved as monuments of mercy; and here the…
Cambridge Bible
Comp. Paul's "Doth God take care for oxen?" (1Co 9:9).
that ear (the obsolete English word for "plough"), strictly till, R.V.
clean provender salted fodder, i.e. the best fodder (Job 6:5) mixed with…
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