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Spinning

From: Boyd's Bible Dictionary: S

By: James P. Boyd

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(spanning, drawing). A well-known and necessary female occupation among Hebrews. The instrument—distaff and spindle—permitted of much the same drawing and twisting process as is now employed in the East, in the absence of the more modern spinning-wheel (Ex. 35:25²⁵And all the women that were wise hearted did spin with their hands, and brought that which they had spun, both of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, and of fine linen. (Exodus 35:25); Prov. 31:19¹⁹She layeth her hands to the spindle, and her hands hold the distaff. (Proverbs 31:19); Matt. 6:28²⁸And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: (Matthew 6:28)).

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