Thematic Bible: Mill


Thematic Bible



No man shall take the lower or the upper millstone to pledge, for he takes a man's life to pledge.

His heart is cast hard as a stone, even cast hard as a piece of a riding millstone.

Take the millstones and grind meal. Push back your veil, draw up your skirt, uncover your leg, pass over the rivers.


And the Philistines took him and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass. And he ground in the prison house.

They took the young men to grind, and the youths stumbled at the wood.


And the voice of harpers, and of musicians. and flutists, and of trumpeters will be heard no more at all in you. And every craftsman of any craft will not be found any more in you. And the sound of a mill will never more be heard at all in you.




The people went around and gathered, and ground it in mills, or beat it in a mortar, and baked in pans, and made cakes of it. And the taste of it was like the taste of fresh oil.


And all the first-born in the land of Egypt shall die, from the first-born of Pharaoh that sits upon his throne, even to the first-born of the slave-girl that is behind the mill; also the first-born of beasts.