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22 Now please listen to me. I will serve you something to eat. Eat it so that you will have strength when you leave.”

23 But he refused. “I don’t want to eat,” he said. Nevertheless, his officers and the woman kept urging [a] him until he listened to them. So he got up from the ground and sat on the bed.

24 The woman immediately butchered a fattened calf that she owned. She took flour, kneaded it, and baked some unleavened bread.

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Footnotes

  1. 28:23 Greek; Masoretic Text “the woman broke through.”

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