Churning
Milk and butter turn up in the Bible as simple, welcome food. Abraham sets butter and milk before his three visitors, and Sisera is given “butter in a lordly dish” in Judges 5. When David is weary in the wilderness, friends bring cheese and honey. Only one verse mentions the work itself, and it turns it into a proverb: “the churning of milk bringeth forth butter,” and in the same way forcing anger brings forth strife (Proverbs 30:33). Press milk long enough and it changes; press a quarrel and something comes out of that too.
6 verses
Genesis
And he took butter, and milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them; and he stood by them under the tree, and they did eat.
Deuteronomy
Butter of kine, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the fat of kidneys of wheat; and thou didst drink the pure blood of the grape.
Judges
He asked water, and she gave him milk; she brought forth butter in a lordly dish.
2 Samuel
And honey, and butter, and sheep, and cheese of kine, for David, and for the people that were with him, to eat: for they said, The people is hungry, and weary, and thirsty, in the wilderness.
Job
He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter.
Proverbs
Surely the churning of milk bringeth forth butter, and the wringing of the nose bringeth forth blood: so the forcing of wrath bringeth forth strife.