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Israel and their corn
Interesting thing I stumbled across tonight and it may be just for the simple minded. I was reading tonight in the Old Testament about grain offerings. It mentioned corn that was beaten and it appeared to me that corn as we know it did not likely exist in that part of the world in those days. Corn as we know it, was domesticated in the Americas.
Other Bible translations say grain in the place of corn. The English word for corn simply means kernels (by some dictionaries). No doubt, the KJV translators had a different use of the word for corn when it was translated. Wheat, barley, oats, etc. could all be considered corn.
It was a grain with kernels in the OT they would have used, but the mental picture we get of golden yellow corn is just another example of how our understanding of language can affect the mental images we see when reading the Bible.
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