“pestle” in the Douay-Rheims Bible
The word pestle appears 3 times in the Douay-Rheims Bible. The first 3 matching verses are shown below.
- Exodus 16:14 And when it had covered the face of the earth, it appeared in the wilderness small, and as it were beaten with a pestle, like unto the hoar frost on the ground.
- Exodus 27:20 Command the children of Israel that they bring thee the purest oil of the olives, and beaten with a pestle: that a lamp may burn always,
- Proverbs 27:22 Though thou shouldst bray a fool in the mortar, as when a pestle striketh upon sodden barley, his folly would not be taken from him.