Confectioner

The single passage gathered under this umbrella names a household trade Samuel warned would be conscripted into the king's service.

Royal Conscription of Trades

Samuel's warning to Israel about the cost of demanding a king lists the daughters' trades that would be requisitioned: "And he will take your⁺ daughters to be perfumers, and to be cooks, and to be bakers" (1Sa 8:13). The UPDV renders the trio of crafts as perfumers, cooks, and bakers — the kitchen and dressing-table arts a royal court would press into permanent palace duty.