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Ovens were a common feature of domestic life and activity

Exodus 8:1-4

Uses for ovens

For baking bread

See also Leviticus 26:23-26

For baking grain offerings

Leviticus 2:4; Leviticus 7:9

Ovens could be rendered unclean

Leviticus 11:35

Ovens were characterised by great heat

Lamentations 5:10; Hosea 7:4,6-7

The Tower of the Ovens was a place in Jerusalem in Nehemiah's day

Nehemiah 3:11; Nehemiah 12:38

See also

4418  bread
5222  baking
5268  cooking
5321  furnace
7368  grain offering