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People's Dictionary of the Bible

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Plough. The plough of the east was very light and simple, perhaps merely a forked stick, having a wooden share, shod with one of those triangular or heart-shaped points of iron which the inhabitants of the Palestine towns still use. 1 Samuel 13:20. A single upright held by one hand, Luke 9:62, while the goad was carried in the other, guided this primitive instrument, which turned the earth equally on both sides. The slight scratching which constitutes eastern ploughing never requires more than one pair of cattle, and often a single cow or ass or camel was doubtless used, as now.

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Rice, Edwin Wilbur, DD. Entry for 'Plough'. People's Dictionary of the Bible. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​rpd/​p/plough.html. 1893.
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