And he will take your daughters to be
confectionaries
Such as deal in spices, and mix them, and make them up in various
forms very agreeable to the taste. Men are commonly in our
countries and times employed in such arts, but it seems this was
the business of women in those times and places. Some versions
F4 render it "unguentariae", makers or
sellers of ointments, and such there were in some nations
F5, such was Lydia in Juvenal
F6;
and to be cooks;
to dress all sorts of food, especially what were boiled, as the
word signifies: and to be bakers; to make and bake bread, which
though with us is the work of men, yet in the eastern countries
was usually done by women; (See Gill on
Leviticus 26:26).