grinding together in this context means grinding grain--two women shall be working together, in other words. pkeck wrote: >religion/OT >Reply-To: >In-Reply-To: <30991dd105082004063e9aa408 at mail.gmail.com> > >On Sat, Aug 20, 2005 at 07:06:12AM -0400, Sethra wrote: > > >>and as to homosexuality... girl on girl is discussed in the bible as >>being wrong. i might have the direct scripture wrong (and i don't know >>where to find it), but it says something like women shall not grind >>together... i am sorry if this has already been answered, but the >> >> > >I have a plain text version of the Bible which is handy for searching. I >found this line in Luke, which could be the line you're thinking of: > >17:35 Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken, >and the other left. > >This whole chapter is a little hard for me to decipher, BUT it seems like >more of a "do what God says and you'll be saved" kind of thing, seemingly >referring to the Rapture and how good people will be taken up to heaven when >the Son returns. I found this after a Google: > >http://bible.cc/luke/17-35.htm > >The Online Parallel Bible. Some different translations of that line: > > >There will be two grinding grain together. One will be taken, and the other >will be left." (WEB) > >There shall be two women grinding together; the one shall be taken, and the >other shall be left. (ASV) > >Two women will be crushing grain together; one will be taken away and the >other let go. (BBE) > >Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be seized and the other >shall be let go. (DBY) > >Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken, and the other >left. (KJV) > >Two women will be grinding together; the one will be taken, and the other >left. (WBS) > >There will be two women turning the mill together: one will be taken away >and the other left behind." (WEY) > > >Doesn't sound like it's about homosexuality at all, even though the previous >line is about two men in bed together. None of the translations intimate >any hanky-panky there. > >After some other searching there are some verses which do mention >homosexuality: > >http://bible.cc/1_timothy/1-10.htm >http://bible.cc/1_corinthians/6-9.htm > >These mention it in the same breath with fornicators, adulterers, liars, >idolators, slavers, perjurers, people who do "any other things against the >right teaching". I bet a lot of the folks who get all worked up about >homosexuals participate in a few of those activities. :-) > >-- >Paul Keck pkeck at uga.edu http://www.arches.uga.edu/~pkeck >University of Georgia http://www.uga.edu/ucns/telecom >EITS Network Engineering mailto:pkeck at ediacara.org > --Opinions mine.-- Go fighting anomalocaridids!!! > > > > >