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Young's Literal Translation

1 Samuel 8:13

`And your daughters he doth take for perfumers, and for cooks, and for bakers;

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Art;   Baker;   Bread;   Confectioner;   Food;   Government;   Israel;   Monarchy;   Rulers;   Samuel;   Scofield Reference Index - Kingdom;   Thompson Chain Reference - Arts and Crafts;   Bakers;   House-Keepers;   Labour;   Manual Labour;   Woman's;   Women;   Work, Women's;   The Topic Concordance - Forsaking;   Hearing;   Idolatry;   Rejection;   Service;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Arts of the;   Kings;   Tribute;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - King;   Samuel;   Spices;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - King, Christ as;   King, Kingship;   Spirituality;   Wages;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Prayer;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Apothecary;   Bake;   Confectionaries;   Cook;   Taxes;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Confectioner;   King, Kingship;   Ointment;   Samuel;   Samuel, Books of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Confection;   Israel;   Meals;   Perfumer;   Trade and Commerce;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Baker;   Confection, Confectionary;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Bake;   Law of Moses;   Ointment;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Hebrew Monarchy, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Bread;   Confection;   Jotham;   Sanctuary;   Tax;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Cooking-Utensils;   Government;   Spices;   Taxation;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
He can take your daughters to become perfumers, cooks, and bakers.
Hebrew Names Version
He will take your daughters to be perfumers, and to be cooks, and to be bakers.
King James Version
And he will take your daughters to be confectionaries, and to be cooks, and to be bakers.
Lexham English Bible
He will take your daughters as his perfume makers and as cooks and as bakers.
English Standard Version
He will take your daughters to be perfumers and cooks and bakers.
New Century Version
He will take your daughters to make perfume and cook and bake for him.
New English Translation
He will take your daughters to be ointment makers, cooks, and bakers.
Amplified Bible
"He will take your daughters to be perfumers, cooks, and bakers.
New American Standard Bible
"He will also take your daughters and use them as perfumers, cooks, and bakers.
Geneva Bible (1587)
He will also take your daughters and make them apoticaries, and cookes, and bakers.
Legacy Standard Bible
He will also take your daughters for perfumers and cooks and bakers.
Contemporary English Version
Your daughters will have to make perfume or do his cooking and baking.
Complete Jewish Bible
He will take your daughters and have them be perfume-makers, cooks and bakers.
Darby Translation
And he will take your daughters for perfumers, and cooks, and bakers.
Easy-to-Read Version
"A king will take your daughters and force some of them to make perfume for him and some to cook and bake for him.
George Lamsa Translation
And he will take your daughters to be weavers and grinders and bakers.
Good News Translation
Your daughters will have to make perfumes for him and work as his cooks and his bakers.
Literal Translation
And he will take your daughters for perfumers, and for cooks, and for bakers.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
As for yor doughters, he shall take the, to be Apotecaries, cokes and bakers
American Standard Version
And he will take your daughters to be perfumers, and to be cooks, and to be bakers.
Bible in Basic English
Your daughters he will take to be makers of perfumes and cooks and bread-makers.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And he will take your daughters, and make them appoticaries, cookes, and bakers.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And he will take your daughters to be perfumers, and to be cooks, and to be bakers.
King James Version (1611)
And he will take your daughters to be confectionaries, and to be cookes, and to be bakers.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And he will take your daughters to be perfumers, and cooks, and bakers.
English Revised Version
And he will take your daughters to be confectionaries, and to be cooks, and to be bakers.
Berean Standard Bible
And he will take your daughters to be perfumers, cooks, and bakers.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Also he schal make youre douytris makeris of `oynementis to hym silf, and fueris, and bakeris.
Update Bible Version
And he will take your daughters to be perfumers, and to be cooks, and to be bakers.
Webster's Bible Translation
And he will take your daughters [to be] confectioneries, and [to be] cooks, and [to be] bakers.
World English Bible
He will take your daughters to be perfumers, and to be cooks, and to be bakers.
New King James Version
He will take your daughters to be perfumers, cooks, and bakers.
New Living Translation
The king will take your daughters from you and force them to cook and bake and make perfumes for him.
New Life Bible
He will take your daughters to make perfume, work with the food, and make bread.
New Revised Standard
He will take your daughters to be perfumers and cooks and bakers.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, your daughters, will he take, - as perfumers and as cooks, and as bakers;
Douay-Rheims Bible
Your daughters also he will take to make him ointments, and to be his cooks, and bakers.
Revised Standard Version
He will take your daughters to be perfumers and cooks and bakers.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"He will also take your daughters for perfumers and cooks and bakers.

Contextual Overview

4 And all the elders of Israel gather themselves together, and come in unto Samuel to Ramath, 5 and say unto him, `Lo, thou hast become aged, and thy sons have not walked in thy ways; now, appoint to us a king, to judge us, like all the nations.' 6 And the thing is evil in the eyes of Samuel, when they have said, `Give to us a king to judge us;' and Samuel prayeth unto Jehovah. 7 And Jehovah saith unto Samuel, `Hearken to the voice of the people, to all that they say unto thee, for thee they have not rejected, but Me they have rejected, from reigning over them. 8 According to all the works that they have done from the day of My bringing them up out of Egypt, even unto this day, when they forsake Me, and serve other gods -- so they are doing also to thee. 9 And now, hearken to their voice; only, surely thou dost certainly protest to them, and hast declared to them the custom of the king who doth reign over them.' 10 And Samuel speaketh all the words of Jehovah unto the people who are asking from him a king, 11 and saith, `This is the custom of the king who doth reign over you: Your sons he doth take, and hath appointed for himself among his chariots, and among his horsemen, and they have run before his chariots; 12 also to appoint for himself heads of thousands, and heads of fifties; also to plow his plowing, and to reap his reaping; and to make instruments of his war, and instruments of his charioteer. 13 `And your daughters he doth take for perfumers, and for cooks, and for bakers;

Bible Verse Review
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Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 8:18 - and the Lord

Cross-References

Genesis 7:11
In the six hundredth year of the life of Noah, in the second month, in the seventeenth day of the month, in this day have been broken up all fountains of the great deep, and the net-work of the heavens hath been opened,

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And he will take your daughters to be confectionaries,.... Such as deal in spices, and mix them, and make them up in various forms very agreeable to the taste. Men are commonly in our countries and times employed in such arts, but it seems this was the business of women in those times and places. Some versions d render it "unguentariae", makers or sellers of ointments, and such there were in some nations e, such was Lydia in Juvenal f;

and to be cooks; to dress all sorts of food, especially what were boiled, as the word signifies: and to be bakers; to make and bake bread, which though with us is the work of men, yet in the eastern countries was usually done by women; :-.

d So V. L. and Tigurine. e Vid. Plin. Nat. Hist. l. 8. c. 5. f Satyr. 2. ver. 141. Vid. Turnebi Adversar. l. 15. c. 17.


 
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