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Rie; Rye

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Spelt

This is judged to refer to ‘spelt,’ the Triticum spelta, a species of grain resembling wheat (Ex. 9:32³²But the wheat and the rie were not smitten: for they were not grown up. (Exodus 9:32); Isa. 28:25²⁵When 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? (Isaiah 28:25)). The same Hebrew word in Ezekiel 4:9⁹Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentiles, and millet, and fitches, and put them in one vessel, and make thee bread thereof, according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon thy side, three hundred and ninety days shalt thou eat thereof. (Ezekiel 4:9) is translated “fitches,” with “spelt” in the margin. The northern rye is the Secale cereale.

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Secale cereale