Genesis 43:34
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34 (A)Portions were taken to them from Joseph's table, but Benjamin's portion was (B)five times as much as any of theirs. And they drank and were merry[a] with him.
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- Genesis 43:34 Hebrew and became intoxicated
Genesis 45:22
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22 To each and all of them he gave (A)a change of clothes, but to Benjamin he gave three hundred shekels[a] of silver and (B)five changes of clothes.
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- Genesis 45:22 A shekel was about 2/5 ounce or 11 grams
2 Samuel 11:8
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8 Then David said to Uriah, “Go down to your house and (A)wash your feet.” And Uriah went out of the king's house, and there followed him a present from the king.
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John 2:10
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10 and said to him, “Everyone serves the good wine first, and when people have drunk freely, then the poor wine. But you have kept the good wine until now.”
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Matthew 11:19
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19 The Son of Man came (A)eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Look at him! A glutton and a drunkard, (B)a friend of (C)tax collectors and sinners!’ Yet wisdom is justified by her deeds.”[a]
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- Matthew 11:19 Some manuscripts children (compare Luke 7:35)
Habakkuk 1:6
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6 For behold, (A)I am raising up the Chaldeans,
that bitter and hasty nation,
(B)who march through the breadth of the earth,
(C)to seize dwellings not their own.
Ecclesiastes 10:19
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Ecclesiastes 9:7
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Enjoy Life with the One You Love
7 Go, (A)eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart, for God has already approved what you do.
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Proverbs 31:6
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- Proverbs 31:6 Hebrew those bitter in soul
1 Samuel 9:22-24
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22 Then Samuel took Saul and his young man and brought them into the hall and gave them a place at the head of those who had been invited, who were about thirty persons. 23 And Samuel said to the cook, “Bring the portion I gave you, of which I said to you, ‘Put it aside.’” 24 So the cook took up (A)the leg and what was on it and set them before Saul. And Samuel said, “See, what was kept is set before you. Eat, because it was kept for you until the hour appointed, that you might eat with the guests.”[a]
So Saul ate with Samuel that day.
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- 1 Samuel 9:24 Hebrew appointed, saying, ‘I have invited the people’
1 Samuel 1:5
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5 But to Hannah he gave a double portion, because he loved her, though the Lord had closed her womb.[a]
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- 1 Samuel 1:5 Syriac; the meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain. Septuagint And, although he loved Hannah, he would give Hannah only one portion, because the Lord had closed her womb
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