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Take heavy millstones and grind flour.
    Remove your veil, and strip off your robe.
    Expose yourself to public view.[a]

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  1. 47:2 Hebrew Bare your legs; pass through the rivers.

41 Two women will be grinding flour at the mill; one will be taken, the other left.

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For the king of Assyria will take away the Egyptians and Ethiopians[a] as prisoners. He will make them walk naked and barefoot, both young and old, their buttocks bared, to the shame of Egypt.

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  1. 20:4 Hebrew Cushites.

21 So the Philistines captured him and gouged out his eyes. They took him to Gaza, where he was bound with bronze chains and forced to grind grain in the prison.

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All the firstborn sons will die in every family in Egypt, from the oldest son of Pharaoh, who sits on his throne, to the oldest son of his lowliest servant girl who grinds the flour. Even the firstborn of all the livestock will die.

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35 Two women will be grinding flour together at the mill; one will be taken, the other left.[a]

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  1. 17:35 Some manuscripts add verse 36, Two men will be working in the field; one will be taken, the other left. Compare Matt 24:40.

“I am your enemy!”
    says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies.
“And now I will lift your skirts
    and show all the earth your nakedness and shame.
I will cover you with filth
    and show the world how vile you really are.

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10 then let my wife serve[a] another man;
    let other men sleep with her.

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  1. 31:10 Hebrew grind for.

11 You people in Shaphir,[a]
    go as captives into exile—naked and ashamed.
The people of Zaanan[b]
    dare not come outside their walls.
The people of Beth-ezel[c] mourn,
    for their house has no support.

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  1. 1:11a Shaphir means “pleasant.”
  2. 1:11b Zaanan sounds like the Hebrew term for “come out.”
  3. 1:11c Beth-ezel means “adjoining house.”

Otherwise, I will strip her as naked
    as she was on the day she was born.
I will leave her to die of thirst,
    as in a dry and barren wilderness.

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37 this is what I am going to do. I will gather together all your allies—the lovers with whom you have sinned, both those you loved and those you hated—and I will strip you naked in front of them so they can stare at you. 38 I will punish you for your murder and adultery. I will cover you with blood in my jealous fury. 39 Then I will give you to these many nations who are your lovers, and they will destroy you. They will knock down your pagan shrines and the altars to your idols. They will strip you and take your beautiful jewels, leaving you stark naked.

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13 Young men are led away to work at millstones,
    and boys stagger under heavy loads of wood.

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All the nations will serve him, his son, and his grandson until his time is up. Then many nations and great kings will conquer and rule over Babylon.

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26 I myself will strip you
    and expose you to shame.

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22 You may ask yourself,
“Why is all this happening to me?”
    It is because of your many sins!
That is why you have been stripped
    and raped by invading armies.

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11 Tremble, you women of ease;
    throw off your complacency.
Strip off your pretty clothes,
    and put on burlap to show your grief.

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17 So the Lord will send scabs on her head;
    the Lord will make beautiful Zion bald.”

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65 “Who is that man walking through the fields to meet us?” she asked the servant.

And he replied, “It is my master.” So Rebekah covered her face with her veil.

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