Then make me a delicious meal that I love and bring it to me to eat, so that I can bless you before I die.”(A)

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Prepare me the kind of tasty food I like(A) and bring it to me to eat, so that I may give you my blessing(B) before I die.”(C)

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And make me savoury meat, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat; that my soul may bless thee before I die.

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Don’t eat a stingy person’s bread,[a](A)
and don’t desire his choice food,(B)

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 23:6 Lit eat bread of an evil eye

Saying 9

Do not eat the food of a begrudging host,
    do not crave his delicacies;(A)

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Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats:

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Faithfulness in Babylon

Daniel determined that he would not defile himself with the king’s food(A) or with the wine he drank. So he asked permission from the chief official not to defile himself.(B)

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But Daniel resolved not to defile(A) himself with the royal food and wine, and he asked the chief official for permission not to defile himself this way.

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But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the portion of the king's meat, nor with the wine which he drank: therefore he requested of the prince of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself.

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