# Now

This word is used here to mark a stop in the story. Here the narrator starts to tell a new part of the story.

# Ophrah

This is the name of a town. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/translate-names]])

# Abiezrite

This is a people group named after their ancestor Abiezer. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/translate-names]])

# was separating out the wheat by beating it on the floor

This is a process called "threshing." Gideon was beating the wheat against the floor to separate the wheat grain from the rest of the wheat plant.