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Tried to restore the winnowing metaphor, but make it a little clearer for the modern audience.
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|Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and will gather the wheat into his garner; but the chaff he will burn with fire unquenchable.
 
|Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and will gather the wheat into his garner; but the chaff he will burn with fire unquenchable.
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|Whose separating device is in His hand.  He will clean the floor, gathering the wheat into his silo, but the chaff will be burnt with unquenchable fire
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|Whose winnowing fan is in His hand.  He will clean the threshing floor, gathering the wheat into his silo, but the chaff will be burnt with unquenchable fire
 
|Note the interesting KJV spelling: "throughly purge his floor."  Some modern translations refer to "threshing floor" but that is imprecise as this verse is not describing the separation of seeds.
 
|Note the interesting KJV spelling: "throughly purge his floor."  Some modern translations refer to "threshing floor" but that is imprecise as this verse is not describing the separation of seeds.
 
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