Book excerpt: Excerpt from Indian Mirror, or Illustrations of Bible Truth Drawn From Life in India Job, although an emir, and the greatest man of all the East, speaks of his wife as herself employed in grinding and such is the custom in many parts of the East. The earlier Bible narratives furnish frequent instances of the wives and daughters of even great and wealthy men engaged in what we should consider menial pursuits. Thus Sarah is referred to as baking the cakes for the strangers who visit Abraham; Rebekah is met at the well, whither She had gone to draw water and Rachel and the daughters of Jethro are mentioned as tending their fathers' flocks. The same state of things is found in many parts of India. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.