And he will take your daughters to be confectionaries, and to be cooks, and to be bakers.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
And he will take your daughters to be perfumers, and to be cooks, and to be bakers.
WEB
And he will take your daughters to be perfumers, cooks, and bakers.
YLT
`And your daughters he doth take for perfumers, and for cooks, and for bakers;
DBT
And he will take your daughters for perfumers, and cooks, and bakers.
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old Testament1 Samuel — The transition from judges to monarchy. Samuel rises as prophet-judge; Israel demands a king; Saul rises and is rejected; David is anointed in obscurity and flees across the wilderness. Three lives overlapping — the prophetic-judicial-royal handoff.
- Author
- Traditionally Samuel (with additions after his death by Nathan and Gad — cf. 1 Chr 29:29)
- Date
- Events c. 1050–1010 BC; compilation during the early monarchy