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Proverbs 31:19
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She extends her hands to the spinning staff,and her hands hold the spindle.
She lays her hands to the distaff, And her hands hold the spindle.
She layeth her hands to the spindle, and her hands hold the distaff.
She puts her hands to the distaff, and her hands hold the spindle.
She stretches out her hands to the distaff, And her hands grasp the spindle.
She makes thread with her hands and weaves her own cloth.
She stretches out her hands to the distaff, And her hands hold the spindle [as she spins wool into thread for clothing].
She lays her hands to the distaff, And her hands hold the spindle.
She putteth her handes to the wherue, and her handes handle the spindle.
She stretches out her hands to the distaff,And her hands hold fast the spindle.
She stretches out her hands to the distaff and grasps the spindle with her fingers.
י She puts her hands to the staff with the flax; her fingers hold the spinning rod.
She putteth her hands to the distaff, and her hands hold the spindle.
She makes her own thread and weaves her own cloth.
She stretches out her arms diligently, and puts her hands to the spindle.
She spins her own thread and weaves her own cloth.
Her hands she puts onto the distaff, and her palms hold a spindle.
She has sent forth her hands on the distaff, and her hands have held the spindle.
She layeth hir fyngers to the spyndle, & hir hande taketh holde of ye rocke.
She layeth her hands to the distaff, And her hands hold the spindle.
She puts her hands to the cloth-working rod, and her fingers take the wheel.
She layeth her hands to the distaff, and her hands hold the spindle.
She layeth her handes to the spindle, and her handes hold the distaffe.
She layeth her fingers to the spindle, & her hande taketh holde of the distaffe.
She reaches forth her arms to needful works, and applies her hands to the spindle.
She layeth her hands to the distaff, and her hands hold the spindle.
Sche putte hir hondis to stronge thingis, and hir fyngris token the spyndil.
She lays her hands to the distaff, And her hands hold the spindle.
She layeth her hands to the spindle, and her hands hold the distaff.
Her hands take hold of the distaff, and her hands grasp the spindle.
She stretches out her hands to the distaff, And her hand holds the spindle.
Her hands are busy spinning thread, her fingers twisting fiber.
She puts her hands to the wheel to make cloth.
She puts her hands to the distaff, and her hands hold the spindle.
Her hands, she putteth forth to the distaff, and, her palms, lay hold of the spindle:
She hath put out her hand to strong things, and her fingers have taken hold of the spindle.
She puts her hands to the distaff, and her hands hold the spindle.
Her hands she hath sent forth on a spindle, And her hands have held a distaff.
She stretches out her hands to the distaff, And her hands grasp the spindle.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
She takes the spindle in her right hand, by twisting which she twists the thread; while she holds the distaff, on which the wool or flax is rolled, in the guard of the left arm, and draws down the thread with the fingers of the left hand. Exodus 35:25, Exodus 35:26
Reciprocal: Proverbs 31:24 - General
Cross-References
Jacob sent for Rachel and Leah to meet him in the field where he kept his sheep,
and he told them: Your father isn't as friendly with me as he used to be, but the God my ancestors worshiped has been on my side.
Rachel and Leah said to Jacob: There's nothing left for us to inherit from our father.
But God appeared to Laban in a dream that night and warned, "Don't say a word to Jacob. Don't make a threat or a promise."
I can understand why you were eager to return to your father, but why did you have to steal my idols?
If you find that any one of us has taken your idols, I'll have that person killed. Let your relatives be witnesses. Show me what belongs to you, and you can take it back." Jacob did not realize that Rachel had stolen the household idols.
She had already hidden them in the cushion she used as a saddle and was sitting on it. Laban searched everywhere and did not find them.
Jacob said to his family and to everyone else who was traveling with him: Get rid of your foreign gods! Then make yourselves acceptable to worship God and put on clean clothes.
Then Joshua told everyone to listen to this message from the Lord , the God of Israel: Long ago your ancestors lived on the other side of the Euphrates River, and they worshiped other gods. This continued until the time of your ancestor Terah and his two sons, Abraham and Nahor.
Michal put a statue in his bed. She put goat hair on its head and dressed it in some of David's clothes.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
She layeth her hands to the spindle,.... As Penelope and her maidens did t. Or spinning wheel, more properly, the wheel itself, which is laid hold on by the right hand, and turned round;
and her hands hold the distaff; the rock, stick, or staff, about which the wool is wrapped, which is spun, and is held in the left hand; for though hands are mentioned in both clauses, yet it is only with one hand the wheel is turned, and the distaff held with the other. Not only wool and flax were sought by her, Proverbs 31:13; but she spins them, and works them up into garments her web is not like the spider's, spun out of its own bowels, on which it hangs; to which the hope and trust of a hypocrite are compared, and whose webs do not become garments to cover them, Job 8:14; but the church's web is both for ornament, to the adorning of her profession, and for defence and protection from the calumnies of the world; for by these are meant good works, as Ambrose interprets them.
t Homer, Odyss. 1. v. 357. & 21. v. 351.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Proverbs 31:19. She layeth her hands to the spindle —
10. She gives an example of skill and industry to her household. She takes the distaff, that on which the wool or flax was rolled; and the spindle, that by twisting of which she twisted the thread with the right hand, while she held the distaff in the guard of the left arm, and drew down the thread with the fingers of the left hand. Allowing that spindle and distaff are proper translations of כישור kishor, and פלך pelech, this was their use, and the way in which they were used. The spindle and distaff are the most ancient of all the instruments used for spinning, or making thread. The spinning-wheel superseded them in these countries; but still they were in considerable use till spinning machinery superseded both them and the spinning-wheels in general.
