An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eighth, ninth, & tenth chapters of…

And secondly, then they were not to be muzzled but to feed all the while as they pleased, while they were treading out the Corn; this by the Command of God. Now this was a very easy work for them to be without yoke, to run up and down in the Corn and so they could feed themselves fat; They had enough to feed on, certain food, and present food, whereas those Heifers that went to plough were fain to be abroad in the storms and cold and wind, and work all day long, and it may be not have a bit of meat till night, and this was a hard work, and Ephraim did not love that work; and it seems to have reference to some of the ten Tribes who would stay in their Country, and worship at Dan and Bethel, ¹and would not go to Jerusalem, Oh! that was hard, and it was better for them to stay in the Land where they might enjoy their possessions, their shops, their tradings, their friends, that was easy, but for them to go to Jerusalem that might cost them their estates, it would raise an opposition against them, and they must leave all and go for the Worship of God, to worship him according to his own way; this was a ploughing-work in respect of the other. Now Ephraim, those that live among the ten Tribes, they loved no such hard work as that was. From whence there are many excellent points observable. As,

And secondly, then they were not to be muzzel'd but to feed all the while as they pleased, while they were treading out the Corn; this by the Command of God. Now this was a very easie work for them to be without yoke, to run up and down in the Corn and so they could feed themselves fat; They had enough to feed on, certain food, and present food, whereas those Heifers that went to plow were fain to be abroad in the storms and cold and wind, and work all day long, and it may be not have a bit of meat till night, and this was a hard work, and Ephraim did not love that work; and it seems to have reference to some of the ten Tribes who would stay in their Country, and worship at Dan and Bethel, ¹and would not go to Jerusalem, Oh! that was hard, and it was better for them to stay in the Land where they might enjoy their possessions, their shops, their tradings, their friends, that was easie, but for them to go to Jerusalem that might cost them their estates, it would raise an opposition against them, and they must leave all and go for the Worship of God, to worship him according to his own way; this was a plowing-work in respect of the other. Now Ephraim, those that live among the ten Tribes, they loved no such hard work as that was. From whence there are many excellent points observable. As,