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Hiram the equivalent of 440,000
bushels of wheat and barley and
340,000 gallons of oil. Later Jews
moved out to colonize Syria where
they were probably the chief
producers of wine and oil an,d' i'n
Africa they produced wine, oil and
wheat.
For the Israelites, agriculture
permeated all aspects of their life,
including many laws. The leavings of
the field were available for the poor,
with farmers told to leave corners of
the field and some of the grapes and
olives for the widows and the
orphans and strangers. Every seventh
year was the Sabbatical year of
release which left the land fallow,
probably valuable in maintaining
fertility.
The strictness of the laws
designed by the rabbis often
brought farmers into conflict
with the law makers. .
Those laws must have made living
in those times, with peoples of
different faiths living side by side,
uncomfortable and full of distrust.
Such was the intolerance of the era
that a Jewish woman was forbidden
to help a Gentile woman who was
giving birth. If a cow was milked by
someone with heathen hands, or
bread or oil prepared by a heathen, it
could be sold to other heathens but
could not used by Jews. If a heathen
was invited to a Israelite's house, he
wasn't to be left alone because if he
was, every article of food and drink
on the table was to be regarded as
unclean. It was against the law to rent
a house to a heathen or sell cattle to
him.
No doubt farmers of those days
grumbled about taxes just as farmers
do today. They had to support their
rabbis and synagogues through
tithing. They had to support the
government of King Herod plus the
Roman Emperor who allowed Herod
to remain as an "independent" king.
There were various head taxes and a
land tax under which landed property
was subject to a tax of one-tenth of
all grain, and one-fifth of the wine
and fruit grown, partly paid in
product and partly commuted into
money.
And so while much has changed
in the world in 2000 years, there are
still similarities in the lives of
farmers.0
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