Thematic Bible: Mill


Thematic Bible



No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone to pledge; for he takes a life in pledge.

His heart is as firm as a stone, yes, firm as the lower millstone.

Take the millstones, and grind meal; remove your veil, strip off the train, uncover the leg, pass through the rivers.


The Philistines seized him, and put out his eyes. And they brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with bronze shackles, and he ground at the mill in the prison.

The young men grind at the mill; the boys stagger under loads of wood.


The voice of harpists, minstrels, flute players, and trumpeters will be heard no more at all in you. No craftsman, of whatever craft, will be found any more at all in you. The sound of a mill will be heard no more at all in you.




The people went around, gathered it, and ground it in mills, or beat it in mortars, and boiled it in pots, and made cakes of it. Its taste was like the taste of fresh oil.


and all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on his throne, even to the firstborn of the female servant who is behind the mill; and all the firstborn of livestock.