She also rises while it is yet night, and provides food for her household, and a portion for her maidservants.
There are three parts to this.
1) She rises early. She is up in plenty of time to make the necessary preparations for her household to run smoothly for the day.
2) She prepares meals for her family. (In those days, this would have taken all day.) There are a lot of things we can do to begin preparing for dinner for our families early in the day – getting a crockpot meal in, pulling meat from the freezer to thaw, cooking bread or rice to go with the evening meal, etc. Not to mention that we should be making sure our families eat healthy breakfasts!
3) She takes care of her servants. We might note that, although she does not do everything herself (she has servants!), and just oversees some things, she is clearly involved in the tasks of running the household, as shown in this verse. She provides food for the family and servants.

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