Proverbs 31:24
Good News Translation
She makes clothes and belts, and sells them to merchants.

New Revised Standard Version
She makes linen garments and sells them; she supplies the merchant with sashes.

Contemporary English Version
She makes clothes to sell to the shop owners.

New American Bible
She makes garments and sells them, and stocks the merchants with belts.

Douay-Rheims Bible
She made fine linen, and sold it, and delivered a girdle to the Chanaanite.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

She made fine linen, and sold it, and delivered a girdle to the Chanaanite.

Proverbs 31:13,19 She hath sought wool and flax, and hath wrought by the counsel of her hands. . . .

1 Kings 10:28 And horses were brought for Solomon out of Egypt, and Coa: for the king's merchants bought them out of Coa, and brought them at a set price.

Ezekiel 27:16 The Syrian was thy merchant: by reason of the multitude of thy works, they set forth precious stories, and purple, and broidered works, and fine linen, and silk, and chodchod in thy market.

Luke 16:19 There was a certain rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and feasted sumptuously every day.

Context
The Virtues of a Noble Woman
23Her husband is honourable in the gates, when he sitteth among the senators of the land. 24She made fine linen, and sold it, and delivered a girdle to the Chanaanite.25Strength and beauty are her clothing, and she shall laugh in the latter day.…
Cross References
Judges 14:12
And Samson said to them: I will propose to you a riddle, which if you declare unto me within the seven days of the feast, I will give you thirty shirts, and as many coats:

Proverbs 31:25
Strength and beauty are her clothing, and she shall laugh in the latter day.

Proverbs 31:23
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