She riseth also while it is yet night, and giveth meat to her household, and a portion to her maidens.
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Gill's Exposition
She riseth also while it is yet night,.... That is, before the ascent of the morning, as Aben Ezra explains it, before break of day; a great while before day, as Christ is said to rise to pray, Mar…
Barnes' Notes
A portion to her maidens - The daily task assigned to each at the same time as the daily food. Compare Pro 30:8; Exo 5:14.
This description of the virtuous woman is designed to show what wives the women should make and what wives the men should choose; it consists of twenty-two verses, each beginning with a letter of the…
Cambridge Bible
a portion So R.V. margin. But R.V. text, their task, the pensum, or amount of wool weighed out to each maiden for her day's task. Comp.
"Noctem addens operi, famulasque ad lumina longo
Exercet…
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