Isaiah 28:28
Good News Translation
They do not ruin the wheat by threshing it endlessly, and they know how to thresh it by driving a cart over it without bruising the grains.

New Revised Standard Version
Grain is crushed for bread, but one does not thresh it forever; one drives the cart wheel and horses over it, but does not pulverize it.

Contemporary English Version
Wheat and barley are pounded, but not beaten to pulp; they are run over with a wagon, but not ground to dust.

New American Bible
Grain is crushed for bread, but not forever; though he thresh it thoroughly, and drive his cartwheel and horses over it, he does not pulverize it.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But breadcorn shall be broken small: but the thrasher shall not thrash it for ever, neither shall the cart wheel hurt it, nor break it with its teeth.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But breadcorn shall be broken small: but the thrasher shall not thrash it for ever, neither shall the cart wheel hurt it, nor break it with its teeth.

bread

Isaiah 21:10 O my thrashing, and the children of my floor, that which I have heard of the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, I have declared unto you.

Amos 9:9 Behold the eyes of the Lord God are upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from the face of the earth: but yet I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob, saith the Lord.

Matthew 3:12 Whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his floor and gather his wheat into the barn; but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.

Matthew 13:37-43 Who made answer and said to them: He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man. . . .

Luke 22:31,32 And the Lord said: Simon, Simon, behold Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat. . . .

John 12:24 Amen, amen, I say to you, unless the grain of wheat falling into the ground die,

1 Corinthians 3:9 For we are God's coadjutors. You are God's husbandry: you are God's building.

1 Corinthians 9:9,10 For it is written in the law of Moses: Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? . . .

the wheel

Isaiah 28:27 For gith shall not be thrashed with saws, neither shall the cart wheel turn about upon cummin: but gith shall be beaten out with a rod, and cumin with a staff.

Context
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27For gith shall not be thrashed with saws, neither shall the cart wheel turn about upon cummin: but gith shall be beaten out with a rod, and cumin with a staff. 28But breadcorn shall be broken small: but the thrasher shall not thrash it for ever, neither shall the cart wheel hurt it, nor break it with its teeth.29This also is come forth from the Lord God of hosts, to make his counsel wonderful, and magnify justice.…
Cross References
Numbers 7:3
Their gifts before the Lord, six wagons covered, and twelve oxen. Two princes offered one wagon, and each one an ox, and they offered them before the tabernacle.

Isaiah 28:27
For gith shall not be thrashed with saws, neither shall the cart wheel turn about upon cummin: but gith shall be beaten out with a rod, and cumin with a staff.

Isaiah 28:29
This also is come forth from the Lord God of hosts, to make his counsel wonderful, and magnify justice.

Isaiah 28:27
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