Cummin

Cummin was a small, aromatic seed used to season bread and stews, threshed by hand or with a light rod rather than the heavy sledge used on grain, because its seeds bruised easily. Like mint and anise, it became an example of religious precision aimed at the wrong target.

• “When 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

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