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30 I wish you had eaten some of the food the Philistines left behind. We would have been able to kill a lot more of them.”

31 By evening the Israelite army was exhausted from killing Philistines all the way from Michmash to Aijalon.[a] 32 They grabbed the food they had captured from the Philistines and started eating. They even killed sheep and cows and calves right on the spot and ate the meat without draining the blood.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. 14.31 Aijalon: About 30 kilometers west of Michmash.
  2. 14.32 blood: The Israelites were supposed to drain the blood from a butchered animal before the meat was cooked and eaten (see Genesis 9.4; Leviticus 17.11; Deuteronomy 12.23).

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