22 So now also, please listen to the voice of your maidservant, and let me set a piece of bread before you that you may eat and have strength when you go on your way.” 23 But he refused and said, “(A)I will not eat.” (B)However, his servants together with the woman urged him, and he listened to [a]them. So he arose from the ground and sat on (C)the bed. 24 The woman had a (D)fattened calf in the house, and she quickly slaughtered it; and she (E)took flour, kneaded it and baked unleavened bread from it.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 28:23 Lit their voices

22 Now please listen to your servant and let me give you some food so you may eat and have the strength to go on your way.”

23 He refused(A) and said, “I will not eat.”

But his men joined the woman in urging him, and he listened to them. He got up from the ground and sat on the couch.

24 The woman had a fattened calf(B) at the house, which she butchered at once. She took some flour, kneaded it and baked bread without yeast.

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