1 Samuel 8:13

13 He will take your daughters to be perfumers and cooks and bakers.

1 Samuel 8:13 in Other Translations

13 And he will take your daughters to be confectionaries, and to be cooks, and to be bakers.

13 He will take your daughters to be perfumers and cooks and bakers.

13 The king will take your daughters from you and force them to cook and bake and make perfumes for him.

13 He'll put your daughters to work as beauticians and waitresses and cooks.

13 And he will take your daughters to be perfumers, and to be cooks, and to be bakers.

13 He will take your daughters and have them make perfumes, cook, and bake.

13 He can take your daughters to become perfumers, cooks, and bakers.

13 "He'll also take your daughters. Some will have to make perfume. Others will be forced to cook and bake.

1 Samuel 8:13 Meaning and Commentary

1 Samuel 8:13

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 ^F4 render it "unguentariae", makers or sellers of ointments, and such there were in some nations ^F5, such was Lydia in Juvenal ^F6;

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; (See Gill on Leviticus 26:26).

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FOOTNOTES:

F4 So V. L. and Tigurine.
F5 Vid. Plin. Nat. Hist. l. 8. c. 5.
F6 Satyr. 2. ver. 141. Vid. Turnebi Adversar. l. 15. c. 17.

1 Samuel 8:13 In-Context

11 He said, “This is what the king who will reign over you will claim as his rights: He will take your sons and make them serve with his chariots and horses, and they will run in front of his chariots.

12 Some he will assign to be commanders of thousands and commanders of fifties, and others to plow his ground and reap his harvest, and still others to make weapons of war and equipment for his chariots.

13 He will take your daughters to be perfumers and cooks and bakers.

14 He will take the best of your fields and vineyards and olive groves and give them to his attendants.

15 He will take a tenth of your grain and of your vintage and give it to his officials and attendants.