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Fitches/Spelt is a leguminous plants mentioned by Isaiah and Ezekiel. The plow man in Isaiah is instructed on how to thresh fitches. Ezekiel also is instructed how to make a bread that can be eaten for three hundred and ninety days.

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Isaiah 28:25 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 28:27 For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the fitches are beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod.

Ezekiel 4:9 Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentiles, and millet, and fitches, and put them in one vessel, and make thee bread thereof, according to the number of the days that thou sha

lt lie upon thy side, three hundred and ninety days shalt thou eat thereof.