1 Samuel 28:24
22 Now please listen to your servant and let me set a morsel of bread before you so you may eat and have the strength to go on your way.”
23 Saul refused, saying, “I will not eat.” But his servants joined the woman in urging him, and he heeded their voice. He got up from the ground and sat on the bed.
The woman had a fattened calf at her house, and she quickly slaughtered it. She also took flour, kneaded it, and baked unleavened bread.
25 She served it to Saul and his servants, and they ate. And that night they got up and left.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- The woman had a fattened calf at her house, and she quickly slaughtered it. She also took flour, kneaded it, and baked unleavened bread.
- KJV
- And the woman had a fat calf in the house; and she hasted, and killed it, and took flour, and kneaded it, and did bake unleavened bread thereof:
- WEB
- The woman had a fattened calf in the house. She hurried and killed it; and she took flour and kneaded it, and baked unleavened bread of it.
- ASV
- And the woman had a fatted calf in the house; and she hasted, and killed it; and she took flour, and kneaded it, and did bake unleavened bread thereof:
- DARBY
- And the woman had a fat calf in the house; and she hasted and killed it, and took flour, and kneaded it, and baked unleavened bread thereof;
- BLB
- And to the woman was a calf of the stall in the house, and she hurried and slaughtered it, and she took flour and kneaded [it] and baked it as unleavened [bread].
- ÅB
- Kvinnen hadde en gjøkalv i huset; hun skyndte seg og slaktet den, og så tok hun mel og eltet det og bakte usyrede kaker.
- OTB
- Nå hadde kvinnen en gjøkalv i huset, og hun slaktet den raskt. Og hun tok mel, knadde det, og bakte usyret brød av det.
- B1930
- Kvinnen hadde en gjøkalv i huset; hun skyndte sig og slaktet den, og så tok hun mel og eltet det og bakte usyrede kaker.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Luke 15:23
Bring the fattened calf and kill it. Let us feast and celebrate.
Read in contextGenesis 18:7–8
Meanwhile, Abraham ran to the herd, selected a tender and choice calf, and gave it to a servant, who hurried to prepare it.
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