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then let my wife grind for another, and let others sleep with her.
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Verse 10. Let. Hebrew “Let my wife grind for another, and let others bend over her,” urging her to work like the meanest slave. Calmet.—Septuagint “Let my wife please (Grabe substitutes λ of ρ, and reads αλεσαι, grind for) another, and my little children be brought low.” Bible.—Yet the sense of the Vulg. is most followed. Sirach 47:21. Lamentations 5:13. Ausonius (epig. 5) says, molitur per utramque cavernam. Calmet.
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