Keluaran 9:32
Konteks9:32 But the wheat and the spelt 1 were not struck, for they are later crops.) 2
Yehezkiel 4:9
Konteks4:9 “As for you, take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt, 3 put them in a single container, and make food 4 from them for yourself. For the same number of days that you lie on your side – 390 days 5 – you will eat it.
[9:32] 1 tn The word כֻּסֶּמֶת (kussemet) is translated “spelt”; the word occurs only here and in Isa 28:25 and Ezek 4:9. Spelt is a grain closely allied to wheat. Other suggestions have been brought forward from the study of Egyptian crops (see a brief summary in W. C. Kaiser, Jr., “Exodus,” EBC 2:363-64).
[9:32] 2 tn Heb “for they are late.”
[4:9] 3 sn Wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt. All these foods were common in Mesopotamia where Ezekiel was exiled.