Sentences with word «maidservant»

A "maidservant" refers to a female worker who specifically helps with household chores and tasks. Full definition
But you haven't had one yet, so just go and sleep with your wife's maidservant Hagar.
With 80 confirmed kills, Báthory might have lured up to 650 peasant girls to her castle with the promise of work as maidservants or courtly training.
Sevigny shines in plum role as Lizzie Borden of «forty whacks» notoriety, posited here as triggered by thwarted romance with Irish maidservant Kristen Stewart
Anyway, Nizbeth's maidservant loved her mistress dearly, and so switched places with her before Jesse entered her bed, much like Leah and Rachel had switched places so many years before on Jacob's wedding night.
Even upon the menservants and maidservants in those days, I will pour out my spirit.
Your women will be made maidservants to my men.
If a child cries more often, many mothers, grandmothers or maidservants start assuming that the baby has been remaining hungry and is not getting enough breast milk.
Or poor Irish maidservants at the turn of the 20th century who become matriarchs of a dysfunctional clan.
Besides their several wives, each wife's maidservants sometimes sired children for the man of the house.
Negatively, this is probably how Abram received Sarai's maidservant Hagar.
Do the same for your maidservant
10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:
Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy... the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God; in it you shall do no work, you, or your son, or your daughter, your manservant, or your maidservant, or your cattle, or the sojourner who is within your gates.
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's.
Then seven choice maidservants were provided for her from the king's palace, and he moved her and her maidservants to the best place in the house of the women.
Yet he also feared that his seven sons were illegitimate, and so he had sought to gain a legitimate heir for himself by sleeping with his wife's maidservant (Yes, it sounds strange, but you have to understand Jewish law for it to make sense).
It is interesting to note that included in this version of the fourth commandment is the further ethical justification «that your manservant and your maidservant may rest as well as you.»
Then Mary said, «Behold the maidservant of the Lord!
104:22), everyone in society needed refreshment, whether son or daughter, manservant or maidservant, sojourner or resident; even animals needed respite.
Six days you shall labor, and do all your work; but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God; in it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, or your manservant, or your maidservant... that your manservant and your maidservant may rest as well as you.
The inscription reads, «From the king's maidservant, from Na'arat, jars of wine, to Jerusalem.»
Jacob had two wives (sisters Leah and Rachel) and two maidservants (Bilhah and Zilpah) through which he had twelve sons.
This passage might also be used by the Spirit in our time to extend the privilege of the public preaching of the gospel to women, since Joel says that both sons and daughters, both menservants and maidservants will prophesy.
Six days shalt thou labour, and do all they work: But the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor they maidservant, nor they cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates.
1Sa 8:16 He will take your menservants and maidservants, and the best of your cattle and your asses, and put them to his work.
He will take your menservants and maidservants, and the best of your cattle and your asses, and put them to his work.
Acts 2:16 - 18 describes God's democratic activity in the dispensing of dreams, visions and prophecy; sons and daughters, young men and old men, menservants and maidservants — all are on the receiving end of God's particular activity in history.
He got involved in sexual immorality with his maidservant Hagar.
She refers to herself as the Maidservant of God.
For He has regarded the lowly state of His maidservant; For behold, henceforth all generations will call me blessed.
Think how much you have to explain, expand and extrapolate in order to preach today on a text like this: «You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, or his manservant or maidservant, his ox or his ass or anything that is your neighbor's» (Exodus 20:17).
Among those disobeying that edict were Perpetua, a young noblewoman, and her maidservant Felicitas.
(10) «You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, or his manservant, or his maidservant, or his ox, or his ass, or anything that is your neighbor's» (20:17).
«You shall not covet your neighbor's wife, or his manservant or maidservant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.
And he will take your menservants, and your maidservants, and your goodliest young men, and your asses, and put [them] to his work.
O LORD, truly I am your servant; I am your servant, the son of your maidservant; you have freed me from my chains.
The whole assembly together was forty - two thousand three hundred and sixty, besides their menservants and maidservants, of whom there were seven thousand three hundred and thirty - seven; and they had two hundred male and female singers.

Phrases with «maidservant»

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