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22 Now it’s your turn to listen to your servant! Let me set before you a bit of bread so that you can eat. When you regain your strength, you can go on your way.”

23 But he refused, saying, “I won’t eat!” Both his servants and the woman urged[a] him to eat, so he gave in.[b] He got up from the ground and sat down on the bed. 24 Now the woman[c] had a well-fed calf[d] at her home that she quickly slaughtered. Taking some flour, she kneaded it and baked bread without leaven.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 28:23 tc The translation follows many medieval Hebrew mss in reading וַיִּפְצְרוּ (vayyiftseru, “and they pressed”; from the root פָּצַר, patsar) rather than the MT’s וַיִּפְרְצוּ (vayyifretsu, “and they broke forth”; from the root פָּרַץ, parats).
  2. 1 Samuel 28:23 tn Heb “he listened to their voice.”
  3. 1 Samuel 28:24 sn Masoretic mss of the Hebrew Bible mark this word as the half-way point in the book of Samuel, treating 1 and 2 Samuel as a single book. Similar notations are found at the midway point for all of the books of the Hebrew Bible.
  4. 1 Samuel 28:24 tn Heb “a calf of the stall.”