Genesis 24:32
he ungirded i.e. Laban ungirded straw Straw, by the eastern mode of threshing, was cut or shattered, and reduced to a kind of chaff. With this, sometimes mixed with a little barley, the eastern people still feed their labouring beasts, as they anciently did. wash Gen 18:4, Gen 19:2, Gen 43:24; Judg 19:21; 1Sam 25:41; Luke 7:44; John 13:4-14; 1Tim 5:10
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