Mortar: An Instrument for Pulverizing Grain
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Numbers 11:8
The people walked around and gathered it, ground it on a handmill or crushed it in a mortar, then boiled it in a cooking pot or shaped it into cakes. It tasted like pastry baked with fine oil.
Proverbs 27:22
Though you grind a fool like grain with mortar and a pestle, yet his folly will not depart from him.