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But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a broom tree; and (A)he asked for himself that he might die, and said, “It is enough; now, O Yahweh, take my [a]life, for I am not better than my fathers.” Then he lay down and slept under a broom tree; and behold, there was (B)an angel touching him, and he said to him, “Arise, eat.” Then he looked and behold, there was at his head a bread cake baked on hot stones, and a jar of water. So he ate and drank and lay down again. And the angel of Yahweh came again a second time and touched him and said, “Arise, eat, because the journey is too great for you.” So he arose and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that food (C)forty days and forty nights to (D)Horeb, the mountain of God.

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  1. 1 Kings 19:4 Lit soul