Also the oxen and the donkeys that work the ground will eat seasoned feed, which has been winnowed with shovel and pitchfork.
Parallel translations
- WEB The oxen likewise and the young donkeys that till the ground will eat savory feed, which has been winnowed with the shovel and with the fork.
- KJV 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.
- BSB The oxen and donkeys that work the ground will eat salted fodder, winnowed with shovel and pitchfork.
- NKJV Likewise the oxen and the young donkeys that work the ground Will eat cured fodder, Which has been winnowed with the shovel and fan.
- NLT The oxen and donkeys that till the ground will eat good grain, its chaff blown away by the wind.
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Quick answer
Even the working animals will eat seasoned, well-prepared fodder in that day of plenty. It matters because God's blessing extends to the whole of life, down to the livestock.
Overview
The promise of abundance is so lavish that oxen and donkeys enjoy choice winnowed feed. The detail emphasizes the completeness of God's coming provision. It evokes the comprehensive flourishing of the renewed creation, where God's blessing touches every part of life under His good rule.
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Cross-references · 8
- Gen 45:6For these two years the famine has been in the land, and there are yet five years, in which there will be no plowing and no harvest.
- Deut 25:4You shall not muzzle the ox when he treads out the grain.
- Luke 3:17whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing floor, and will gather the wheat into his barn; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”
- 1 Sam 8:12He will appoint them to him for captains of thousands, and captains of fifties; and he will assign some to plow his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and the instruments of his chariots.
- 1 Cor 9:9–10For it is written in the law of Moses, “You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain.” Is it for the oxen that God cares,
- Matt 3:12His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing floor. He will gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn up with unquenchable fire.”
- Exod 34:21“Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest: in plowing time and in harvest you shall rest.
- Deut 21:4The elders of that city shall bring the heifer down to a valley with running water, which is neither plowed nor sown, and shall break the heifer’s neck there in the valley.
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