Matthew 24:41
39 And they were oblivious, until the flood came and swept them all away. So will it be at the coming of the Son of Man.
40 Two men will be in the field: one will be taken and the other left.
Two women will be grinding at the mill: one will be taken and the other left.
42 Therefore keep watch, because you do not know the day on which your Lord will come.
43 But understand this: If the homeowner had known in which watch of the night the thief was coming, he would have kept watch and would not have let his house be broken into.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Two women will be grinding at the mill: one will be taken and the other left.
- KJV
- Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
- WEB
- Two women will be grinding at the mill: one will be taken and one will be left.
- ASV
- two women [shall be] grinding at the mill; one is taken, and one is left.
- DARBY
- two [women] grinding at the mill, one is taken and one is left.
- BLB
- Two [women] will be grinding at the mill: one is taken, and one is left.
- ÅB
- To kvinner skal male på kvernen; en blir tatt med, og en blir latt tilbake.
- OTB
- To kvinner skal male på kvernen; den ene blir tatt med, og den andre blir latt tilbake.
- B1930
- To kvinner skal male på kvernen; en blir tatt med, og en blir latt tilbake.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Exodus 11:5
and every firstborn son in the land of Egypt will die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on his throne, to the firstborn of the servant girl behind the hand mill, as well as the firstborn of all the cattle.
Read in contextLuke 17:35
Two women will be grinding grain together: One will be taken and the other left.”
Read in contextIsaiah 47:2
Take millstones and grind flour; remove your veil; strip off your skirt, bare your thigh, and wade through the streams.
Read in context