Oven. The eastern oven is of two kinds - fixed and portable. The former is found only in towns, where regular bakers are employed. Hosea 7:4. The latter ia adapted to the nomad state, it consists of a large jar made of clay, about three feet high and widening toward the bottom, with a hole for the extraction of the ashes.
Each household possessed such an article, Exodus 8:3, and it was, only in times of extreme dearth, that the same oven sufficed for several families. Leviticus 26:26. It was heated with dry twigs and grass, Matthew 6:30, and the loaves were placed both inside and outside of it.
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