11 Bible Verses about Grinding Food

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Job 31:10

then let my wife grind for another, and let others bow down on her.

Ecclesiastes 12:3

in the day when the keepers of the house tremble, and the strong men are bent, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those who look through the windows are dimmed,

Numbers 11:8

The people went about and gathered it and ground it in handmills or beat it in mortars and boiled it in pots and made cakes of it. And the taste of it was like the taste of cakes baked with oil.

Judges 16:21

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

Isaiah 47:2

Take the millstones and grind flour, put off your veil, strip off your robe, uncover your legs, pass through the rivers.

Lamentations 5:13

Young men are compelled to grind at the mill, and boys stagger under loads of wood.

Ecclesiastes 12:4

and the doors on the street are shut--when the sound of the grinding is low, and one rises up at the sound of a bird, and all the daughters of song are brought low--

Zephaniah 1:11

Wail, O inhabitants of the Mortar! For all the traders are no more; all who weigh out silver are cut off.

Luke 17:35

There will be two women grinding together. One will be taken and the other left."

Revelation 18:22

and the sound of harpists and musicians, of flute players and trumpeters, will be heard in you no more, and a craftsman of any craft will be found in you no more, and the sound of the mill will be heard in you no more,

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