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Apocrypha of the New Testament · Chapter 25. After No Long Time the Angel Said to Joseph: Return to the Land of Judah, for They Are Dead Who Sought the Child's Life

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Again, on a certain day, He went forth into the field, and took a little wheat from His mother's barn, and sowed it Himself. And it sprang up, and grew, and multiplied exceedingly. And at last it came to pass that He Himself reaped it, and gathered as the produce of it three kors,1679 and gave it to His numerous acquaintances.1680

Notes

  1. 1679

    The kor or chomer was, according to Jahn, equal to 32 pecks 1 pint.

  2. 1680

    Multiplicibus suis.

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 8, ed. Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson and A. Cleveland Coxe (1885–96). Public domain. Text from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library.