Jeremiah 41:8 (KJV)

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But ten men were found among them that said unto Ishmael Slay us not for we have treasures in the field of wheat and of barley and of oil and of honey So he forbare and slew them not among their brethren

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Slay. Job 2:4 Ps 49:6-8 Pr 13:8 Mt 6:25 Mt 16:26 Mr 8:36 Mr 8:37 Php 3:7-9

treasures.These "treasures hid in the field" were doubtless laid up in subterranean pits, similar to the {mattamores} in Barbary, in which, Dr. Shaw informs us, they deposit the grain when winnowed; two or three hundred of them being sometimes together, and the smallest holding four hundred bushels. The same mode of keeping corn prevails in Syria and the Holy Land.

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