Lessons from a Wheat Plant

Principal grain crops of the Palestine area: wheat and barley

BARLEY WHEAT

Corn = shibolleth (Hebrew) = an ear of grain

SheafSheaf - a bundle of stalks of grain - a bundle of stalks of grain

Bran - the outer layers of the grain of cereals such as wheat, removed during the process of milling and used as a source of dietary fiber.

Wheat germ - the vitamin-rich embryo of the wheat kernel that is separated before milling for

use as a cereal or food supplement.

BRAN

STARCH

WHEAT GERM

Chaff - material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from

their seeds

And she went, and came, and gleaned in the field after the reapers

Ruth 2:3

Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.

I Peter 1:23