<p class="bodytext">One must not take either lower or upper millstones as security on a loan, for that is like taking a life itself as security.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">Pick up millstones and grind flour!p> <p class="poetry">Remove your veil,p> <p class="poetry">strip off your skirt,p> <p class="poetry">expose your legs,p> <p class="poetry">cross the streams!p>

And the people went about and gathered it, and ground it with mills or pounded it in mortars; they baked it in pans and made cakes of it. It tasted like fresh olive oil.<n id="1" />

I will put an end to the sounds of joy and gladness, to the glad celebration of brides and grooms in these lands.<n id="1" /> I will put an end to the sound of people grinding meal. I will put an end to lamps shining in their houses.<n id="2" />

and all the firstborn in the land of Egypt will die, from the firstborn son of Pharaoh<n id="1" /> who sits on his throne, to the firstborn son of the slave girl who is at her hand mill, and all the firstborn of the cattle.