For black cummin is not threshed with a threshing sledge, nor is a cartwheel rolled over cummin; but black cummin is beaten out with a staff, and cummin with a rod, establishing that different crops require different treatment, that the plowman's knowledge includes understanding the proper method for each, suggesting an appropriate proportionality in God's judgment. The differentiation of treatment—threshing sledge for some crops, staff for others—suggests that judgment is calibrated to what is being judged. The oracle prepares for the final affirmation: just as the plowman knows what treatment each crop needs, so also God knows what judgment each situation requires. The careful and differentiated treatment suggests that judgment is not indiscriminate but precisely calibrated.

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