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Originally Posted by mfblume
Correct. It was from their fields. Does the bible indicate a means of income aside from that?
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"Casting your bread upon the waters..." that is sending a portion of your harvest to markets afar off. This is incipient capitalism.
Livestock gains would not have been measured by the 1/40 of a field measure. Neither would the work of artisans, craftsmen, smiths, jewelers, potters and fishermen. Not to mention the scribes, lawyers and rabbis and governement officials and the standing army. Also the levy workers and day laborers. I forgot prostitutes. Lots of ways to get an "increase" in those days. Of course all of it was dependant upon the harvest from the field.