And he will take your daughters to be confectionaries, and to be cooks, and to be bakers.

Your daughters also he will take to make him ointments, and to be his cooks, and bakers.

And he will take your daughters to be confectioneries, and to be cooks, and to be bakers.

Your daughters he will take to be makers of perfumes and cooks and bread-makers.

Likewise, your daughters he will take for himself as makers of ointments, and as cooks and bakers.

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 (d) render it "unguentariae", makers or sellers of ointments, and such there were in some nations (e), such was Lydia in Juvenal (f):
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.
(d) So V. L. and Tigurine. (e) Vid. Plin. Nat. Hist. l. 8. c. 5. (f) Satyr. 2. ver. 141. Vid. Turnebi Adversar. l. 15. c. 17.

he will take your daughters to be confectionaries--Cookery, baking, and the kindred works are, in Eastern countries, female employment, and thousands of young women are occupied with these offices in the palaces even of petty princes.

"Your daughters he will take as preparers of ointments, cooks, and bakers," sc., for his court.

Daughters - Which would be more grievous to their parents, and more dangerous to themselves, because of the tenderness of that sex, and their liableness to many injuries.