Matthew 24:41 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

⁴¹ Two women will be grinding grain at a millstone [Note: This was a hand-operated device where two persons sat across from each other and rotated a circular stone over kernels of grain]; one will be taken, while the other one will be left.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴¹ Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴¹ Two women will be grinding at the hand mill; one will be taken and one will be left.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴¹ two women shall be grinding at the mill; one is taken, and one is left.

Common English Bible

⁴¹ Two women will be grinding at the mill. One will be taken and the other left.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴¹ Two women will be grinding at a millstone: one will be taken up, and one will be left behind.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴¹ Two women shall be grinding at the mill: one shall be taken, and one shall be left.

Matthew 24:41 Cross References

Matthew 24:40

At that time there will be two men [working] in a field; one will be taken [i.e., to be with the Lord. See I Thess. 4:17], while the other one will be left [i.e., to be punished by the Lord. See II Thess. 1:7-9].

Luke 17:35

There will be two women grinding grain together [Note: This was done with a hand-operated millstone where two persons sat across from each other and rotated a circular stone over kernels of grain]; one will be taken while the other one will be left.