0 The Bible: Topics: Corn

Then Jael Heber's wife took a nail of the tent, and took an hammer in her hand, and went softly unto him, and smote the nail into his temples, and fastened it into the ground: for he was fast asleep and weary. So he died. Judges 4:21

Trivia: In Judges 15, Samson caught 300 foxes. What did he do with them?

Corn

"Corn" is obviously a mistranslation in the King James Version, since there was no corn in Egypt or anywhere in the Eastern hemisphere in biblical times.

Corn was domesticated 10,000 years ago by indigenous peoples in what is now Mexico.


See notes: Gen 41:49, Lev 2:14

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