Proverbs 31:15
Good News Translation
She gets up before daylight to prepare food for her family and to tell her servant women what to do.

New Revised Standard Version
She rises while it is still night and provides food for her household and tasks for her servant-girls.

Contemporary English Version
She gets up before daylight to prepare food for her family and for her servants.

New American Bible
She rises while it is still night, and distributes food to her household, a portion to her maidservants.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And she hath risen in the night, and given a prey to her household, and victuals to her maidens.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And she hath risen in the night, and given a prey to her household, and victuals to her maidens.

riseth

Joshua 3:1 And Joshua rose before daylight, and removed the camp: and they departed from Setim, and came to the Jordan: he, and all the children of Israel, and they abode there for three days.

2 Chronicles 36:15 And the Lord the God of their fathers sent to them, by the hand of his messengers, rising early, and daily admonishing them: because he spared his people and his dwelling place.

Psalm 119:147,148 I prevented the dawning of the day, and cried: because in thy words I very much hoped. . . .

Ecclesiastes 9:10 Whatsoever thy hand is able to do, do it earnestly: for neither work, nor reason, nor wisdom, nor knowledge shall be in hell, whither thou art hastening.

Mark 1:35 And rising very early, going out, he went into a desert place: and there he prayed.

Romans 12:11 In carefulness not slothful. In spirit fervent. Serving the Lord.

and giveth

Matthew 24:25 Behold I have told it to you, beforehand.

Luke 12:42 And the Lord said: Who thinkest thou is the faithful and wise steward, whom his lord setteth over his family, to give them their measure of wheat in due season?

Context
The Virtues of a Noble Woman
14She is like the merchant's ship, she bringeth her bread from afar. 15And she hath risen in the night, and given a prey to her household, and victuals to her maidens.16She hath considered a field, and bought it: with the fruit of her hands she hath planted a vineyard.…
Cross References
Luke 12:42
And the Lord said: Who thinkest thou is the faithful and wise steward, whom his lord setteth over his family, to give them their measure of wheat in due season?

Romans 12:11
In carefulness not slothful. In spirit fervent. Serving the Lord.

Proverbs 20:13
Love not sleep, lest poverty oppress thee: open thy eyes, and be filled with bread.

Proverbs 31:16
She hath considered a field, and bought it: with the fruit of her hands she hath planted a vineyard.

Proverbs 31:14
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