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NASB | Amos 1:1 The words of Amos, who was among the sheepherders from Tekoa, which he envisioned in visions concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam son of Joash, king of Israel, two years before the earthquake. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Amos 1:1 The words of Amos, who was among the sheepherders of Tekoa, which he saw [in a divine revelation] concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel, two years before the earthquake. [Zech 14:5] |
Bible Question: My husband said that there is a mistake in the bible concerning CORN. In Exodus Chapter 42 verse 5 it says, "And he slept and dreamed the second time; and behold, seven ears of corn came up upon one stalk, rank and good." My husband says that only America had corn at this particular time. Is he right? |
Bible Answer: Hi, Dat! I checked an online source: "The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001. Vavilov, Nikolai Ivanovich 1887–1943?, Russian botanist and geneticist. He is reported to have died in a Soviet concentration camp after losing political favor to Trofim Lysenko, whose theories he opposed. He served earlier as professor at the Leningrad Agricultural Institute and as director of the All-Union Institute of Plant Industry. In 1918 he discovered in Transcaucasia a variety of wheat that grows at an altitude of nearly 3,000 ft (914 m) and is resistant to rust and mildew. His genetic study of wheat variations led to an attempt to trace the locales of origin of various crops by determining the areas in which the greatest number and diversity of their species are to be found. In 1936 he reported that his studies indicated Ethiopia and Afghanistan as the birthplaces of agriculture and hence of civilization. Vavilov divided cultivated plants into those that were domesticated from wild forms, e.g., oats and rye, and those known only in the cultivated form, e.g., corn. After the ouster and death of Lysenko, Vavilov’s work regained prestige in the Soviet Union. His Immunity of Plants to Infectious Diseases (1918) includes a summary in English. This statement "Ethiopia and Afghanistan as the birthplaces of agriculture" and the fact that corn was used to identify several staple grains does give support to the Biblical use of corn as part of the Pharaoh's dream. God Bless! Angel |