Thematic Bible: Mill


Thematic Bible



“Do not take a pair of millstones or an upper millstone as security for a debt, because that is like taking a life as security.

His heart is as hard as a rock,
as hard as a lower millstone!

Take millstones and grind meal;
remove your veil,
strip off your skirt, bare your thigh,
wade through the streams.


The Philistines seized him and gouged out his eyes. They brought him down to Gaza and bound him with bronze shackles, and he was forced to grind grain in the prison.

Young men labor at millstones;
boys stumble under loads of wood.


The sound of harpists, musicians,
flutists, and trumpeters
will never be heard in you again;
no craftsman of any trade
will ever be found in you again;
the sound of a mill
will never be heard in you again;




The people walked around and gathered it. They ground it on a pair of grinding stones or crushed it in a mortar, then boiled it in a cooking pot and shaped it into cakes. It tasted like a pastry cooked with the finest oil.


and every firstborn male in the land of Egypt will die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on his throne to the firstborn of the servant girl who is behind the millstones, as well as every firstborn of the livestock.


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