He will take your daughters, &c. He will exercise as arbitrary a power over the women as over the men; whom he will make to serve in such employments as he shall think fit; either for nothing, or such wages as he shall please to give them. To have their daughters taken in this manner would be peculiarly grievous to the parents, and dangerous to themselves, because of the tenderness of their sex, and their liableness to many injuries.
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1 Samuel 8:13
13 And he will take your daughters to be confectionaries, and to be cooks, and to be bakers.