Genesis 18:5

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And let me get a bit of bread to keep up your strength, and after that you may go on your way: for this is why you have come to your servant. And they said, Let it be so.

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  • Judg 13:15 : 15 And Manoah said to the angel of the Lord, Now let us keep you while we make ready a young goat for you.
  • Judg 19:5 : 5 Now on the fourth day they got up early in the morning and he made ready to go away; but the girl's father said to his son-in-law, Take a little food to keep up your strength, and then go on your way.
  • Ps 104:15 : 15 And wine to make glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face shining, and bread giving strength to his heart.
  • Gen 19:8 : 8 See now, I have two unmarried daughters; I will send them out to you so that you may do to them whatever seems good to you: only do nothing to these men, for this is why they have come under the shade of my roof.
  • Gen 33:10 : 10 And Jacob said, Not so; but if I have grace in your eyes, take them as a sign of my love, for I have seen your face as one may see the face of God, and you have been pleased with me.
  • Judg 6:18 : 18 Do not go away till I come with my offering and put it before you. And he said, I will not go away before you come back.
  • Isa 3:1 : 1 For the Lord, the Lord of armies, is about to take away from Jerusalem and from Judah all their support; their store of bread and of water;
  • Matt 6:11 : 11 Give us this day bread for our needs.

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