Isaiah 28:25 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁵ When they have leveled its surface, do they not scatter dill, sow cumin, and plant wheat in rows and barley in its proper place and spelt as the border?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁵ When he hath made plain the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in the principal wheat and the appointed barley and the rie in their place?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁵ When he has leveled its surface, does he not cast abroad [the seed of] dill or fennel and scatter cummin [a seasoning], and put the wheat in rows, and barley in its intended place, and spelt [an inferior kind of wheat] as the border?

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁵ When he hath levelled the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and put in the wheat in rows, and the barley in the appointed place, and the spelt in the border thereof?

Common English Bible

²⁵ When he has smoothed its surface, doesn’t he scatter fennel, and sow cumin, and plant wheat and barley in their places, and spelt as a border?

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁵ Will he not, when he has made the surface level, sow coriander, and scatter cumin, and plant wheat in rows, and barley, and millet, and vetch in their places?

Isaiah 28:25 Cross References

Ezekiel 4:9

“And you, take wheat and barley, beans and lentils, millet and spelt; put them into one vessel and make bread for yourself. During the number of days that you lie on your side, three hundred ninety days, you shall eat it.

Matthew 23:23

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint, dill, and cumin and have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faith. It is these you ought to have practiced without neglecting the others.

Isaiah 28:24

Do those who plow for sowing plow continually? Do they continually open and harrow their ground?

Isaiah 28:26

For they are well instructed; their God teaches them.