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Webster's Bible Translation

Proverbs 27:27

And [thou shalt have] goats milk enough for thy food, for the food of thy household, and [for] maintenance for thy maidens.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Agriculture;   Food;   Goat;   Industry;   Milk;   Servant;   Thompson Chain Reference - Food;   Food, Physical-Spiritual;   Victuals;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Agriculture or Husbandry;   Diet of the Jews, the;   Goat, the;   Milk;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Goat;   Milk;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Animals;   Farming;   Food;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Pardon;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Milk;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Proverbs, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Food;   Goat;   Greek Versions of Ot;   Proverbs, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Goat ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Goat;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Milk;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Food;   Life;   Milk;   Proverb;   Proverbs, Book of;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Food;   Goat;   Milk;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
there will be enough goat’s milk for your food—food for your householdand nourishment for your female servants.
Hebrew Names Version
There will be plenty of goats' milk for your food, For your family's food, And for the nourishment of your servant girls.
King James Version
And thou shalt have goats' milk enough for thy food, for the food of thy household, and for the maintenance for thy maidens.
English Standard Version
There will be enough goats' milk for your food, for the food of your household and maintenance for your girls.
New American Standard Bible
And there will be enough goats' milk for your food, For the food of your household, And sustenance for your attendants.
New Century Version
There will be plenty of goat's milk to feed you and your family and to make your servant girls healthy.
Amplified Bible
And there will be enough goats' milk for your food, For the food of your household, And for the maintenance of your maids.
World English Bible
There will be plenty of goats' milk for your food, For your family's food, And for the nourishment of your servant girls.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And let the milke of the goates be sufficient for thy foode, for the foode of thy familie, and for the sustenance of thy maydes.
Legacy Standard Bible
And there will be enough goats' milk for your food,For the food of your household,And sustenance for your maidens.
Berean Standard Bible
You will have plenty of goats' milk to feed you-food for your household and nourishment for your maidservants.
Contemporary English Version
From the milk of the goats, you can make enough cheese to feed your family and all your servants.
Complete Jewish Bible
and there will be enough goat's milk to [buy] food for you and your household and maintenance for your servant-girls.
Darby Translation
and there is goats' milk enough for thy food, for the food of thy household, and sustenance for thy maidens.
Easy-to-Read Version
Then there will be plenty of goat's milk for you and your family, with enough to keep the servants healthy.
George Lamsa Translation
And the goats milk is for your food and for the food of your household.
Good News Translation
The rest of the goats will provide milk for you and your family, and for your servant women as well.
Lexham English Bible
And there will be enough goats' milk for your food, for the food of your household and the nourishment of your maidservants.
Literal Translation
and there will be goat's milk enough for your food, for the food of your household, and for the life of your maidens.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Thou shalt haue goates mylck ynough to fede the, to vpholde thy husholde, & to susteyne thy maydens.
American Standard Version
And there will be goats' milk enough for thy food, for the food of thy household, And maintenance for thy maidens.
Bible in Basic English
There will be goats' milk enough for your food, and for the support of your servant-girls.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And there will be goats' milk enough for thy food, for the food of thy household; and maintenance for thy maidens.
King James Version (1611)
And thou shalt haue goats milke enough for thy food, for the food of thy houshold, and for the maintenance for thy maidens.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Thou shalt haue goates milke inough to feede thee, to vpholde thy housholde, and to sustayne thy maydens.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
It is not good to eat much honey; but it is right to honour venerable sayings.
English Revised Version
And there will be goats' milk enough for thy food, for the food of thy household; and maintenance for thy maidens.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
The mylke of geete suffice to thee for thi meetis; in to the necessarie thingis of thin hous, and to lijflode to thin handmaidis.
Update Bible Version
And [there will be] goats' milk enough for your food, for the food of your household, And maintenance for your maidens.
New English Translation
And there will be enough goat's milk for your food, for the food of your household, and for the sustenance of your servant girls.
New King James Version
You shall have enough goats' milk for your food, For the food of your household, And the nourishment of your maidservants.
New Living Translation
And you will have enough goats' milk for yourself, your family, and your servant girls.
New Life Bible
There will be enough goats' milk for your food, for the food of all your house, and a living for your young women.
New Revised Standard
there will be enough goats' milk for your food, for the food of your household and nourishment for your servant-girls.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
With, enough goats-milk, for thy food - for the food of thy household, and, a maintenance, for thy maidens.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Let the milk of the goats be enough for thy food, and for the necessities of thy house, and for maintenance for thy handmaids.
Revised Standard Version
there will be enough goats' milk for your food, for the food of your household and maintenance for your maidens.
Young's Literal Translation
And a sufficiency of goats' milk [is] for thy bread, For bread to thy house, and life to thy damsels!
New American Standard Bible (1995)
And there will be goats' milk enough for your food, For the food of your household, And sustenance for your maidens.

Contextual Overview

23 Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, [and] look well to thy herds. 24 For riches [are] not for ever: and doth the crown [endure] to every generation? 25 The plant appeareth, and the tender grass showeth itself, and herbs of the mountains are gathered. 26 The lambs [are] for thy clothing, and the goats [are] the price of the field. 27 And [thou shalt have] goats milk enough for thy food, for the food of thy household, and [for] maintenance for thy maidens.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

enough: Proverbs 30:8, Proverbs 30:9, Matthew 6:33

maintenance: Heb. life

Reciprocal: Proverbs 12:11 - tilleth 1 Corinthians 9:7 - eateth not of the milk

Cross-References

Genesis 26:12
Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year a hundred-fold: and the LORD blessed him:
Genesis 27:6
And Rebekah spoke to Jacob her son, saying, Behold, I heard thy father speak to Esau thy brother, saying,
Genesis 27:7
Bring me venison, and make me savory meat, that I may eat, and bless thee before the LORD, before my death.
Genesis 27:11
And Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, Behold, Esau my brother [is] a hairy man, and I [am] a smooth man:
Genesis 27:12
My father perhaps will feel me, and I shall seem to him as a deceiver; and I shall bring a curse upon me, and not a blessing.
Genesis 27:13
And his mother said to him, upon me [be] thy curse, my son; only obey my voice, and go, bring them to me.
Genesis 27:14
And he went, and took, and brought [them] to his mother: and his mother made savory meat, such as his father loved.
Psalms 65:10
Thou waterest the ridges of it abundantly: thou settlest the furrows of it: thou makest it soft with showers: thou blessest the springing of it.
Song of Solomon 2:13
The fig-tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vines [with] the tender grape give a [good] smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.
Hebrews 6:7
For the earth which drinketh in the rain that cometh often upon it, and bringeth forth herbs fit for them by whom it is dressed, receiveth blessing from God:

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And [thou shalt have] goats' milk enough for thy food,.... The word for "goats", in Proverbs 27:26, signifies he goats, which were sold to buy fields, pay servants or rent, or purchase the necessaries of life; and this here signifies she goats, which were kept for their milk; and which was daily used for food in some countries, and is still in use for the same purpose in some parts of our kingdoms; and in medicine it has been preferred by some physicians above others, next to the milk of women w: and the diligent husbandman is promised not only plenty of this his own eating, at least a sufficiency of it, but for his family;

for the food of thy household; his wife and children:

and [for] maintenance for thy maidens: or "the lives" x of them, on which they should live; for, though menservants might require strong meat yet the maidens might live upon milk; besides, Athenaeus y speaks of most delicious cheese made of goats' milk, called "tromilicus". The design of the whole is to show that a man diligent in his business shall have a sufficiency for himself and his family; and, though it may be but the meaner sort of food and clothing he may get, yet, having food and raiment, he should therewith be content.

w Plin. Nat. Hist. l. 28. c. 9. Vid. Scheuehzer. Physic, Sacr. vol. 5. p. 1016. x וחיים "vitas", Montanus; "ad vitam", Gejerus; "life" is often put for "bread"; or for that by which life is maintained, both in Greek and Latin writers; so βιος, in Hesiod. Opera, l. 1. v. 31, 328. and "vita", in Plaut. Stichus, Act. 3. Sc. 2. v. 9. Trinum, Act. 2. Sc. 4. v. 76. y Deipnosoph. l. 14. c. 22. p. 658. see also l. 1. c. 8. p 10.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The verses sing the praises of the earlier patriarchal life, with its flocks and herds, and tillage of the ground, as compared with the commerce of a later time, with money as its chief or only wealth.

Proverbs 27:23

The state - literally, face. The verse is an illustration of John 10:3, John 10:14.

Proverbs 27:24

Riches - The money which men may steal, or waste, is contrasted with the land of which the owner is not so easily deprived. Nor will the crown (both the “crown of pure gold” worn on the mitre of the high priest, Exodus 29:6; Exodus 39:30; and the kingly diadem, the symbol of power generally) be transmitted (as flocks and herds had been) “from one generation to another.”

Proverbs 27:25

Appeareth - Better, When the grass disappeareth, the “tender grass showeth itself.” Stress is laid on the regular succession of the products of the earth. The “grass” (“hay”) of the first clause is (compare Psalms 37:2; Psalms 90:5; Psalms 103:15; 2 Kings 19:26) the proverbial type of what is perishable and fleeting. The verse gives a picture of the pleasantness of the farmer’s calling; compared with this what can wealth or rank offer? With this there mingles (compare Proverbs 27:23) the thought that each stage of that life in its season requires care and watchfulness.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 27:27. Goats' milk enough for thy food — ללחמך lelachmecha, "to thy bread;" for they ate the bread and supped the milk to assist mastication, and help deglutition. And it seems that bread, with goats' milk, was the general article of food for the master and his family; and for the servant maids who assisted in the household work, and performed the operations required in the dairy.

The reader who wishes to see these maxims detailed and illustrated at large, may consult the writers De Re Rustica, where he will find much curious information.


 
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