Genesis 18:7

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Then Abraham ran to the herd, selected a tender and good calf, and gave it to a servant, who hastened to prepare it.

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  • Gen 19:3 : 3 But Lot insisted strongly, so they turned aside to him and entered his house. He prepared a meal for them, baking unleavened bread, and they ate.
  • Judg 13:15-16 : 15 Manoah said to the angel of the Lord, "Please stay here, and we will prepare a young goat for you." 16 The angel of the Lord said to Manoah, "Even if you detain me, I will not eat your food. But if you prepare a burnt offering, you must offer it to the Lord." (Manoah did not know he was an angel of the Lord.)
  • Amos 6:4 : 4 You lie on beds inlaid with ivory and lounge on your couches. You dine on choice lambs from the flock and fattened calves from the stall.
  • Mal 1:14 : 14 Cursed is the deceiver who has a male animal in his flock and vows to give it, but instead sacrifices a blemished animal to the Lord. For I am a great King, says the LORD of Hosts, and my name is to be feared among the nations.
  • Matt 22:4 : 4 Again, he sent other servants, saying, 'Tell those who are invited: Look, I have prepared my banquet; my oxen and fattened animals have been slaughtered, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding feast.'
  • Luke 15:23 : 23 Bring the fattened calf and kill it. Let us eat and celebrate!
  • Luke 15:27 : 27 He said to him, 'Your brother has come, and your father has killed the fattened calf because he has received him back safe and sound.'
  • Luke 15:30 : 30 But when this son of yours came, who has squandered your wealth with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him!'

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  • Gen 18:8-9
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    8He then brought curds, milk, and the calf he had prepared, and set them before the men. While they ate, he stood near them under the tree.

    9They asked him, 'Where is your wife Sarah?' He replied, 'There, in the tent.'

  • Gen 18:5-6
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    5And let me get a piece of bread so you may refresh yourselves, and after that, you may go on your way—since you have come to your servant. And they said, 'Very well, do as you have said.'

    6So Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah and said, 'Quickly prepare three measures of fine flour, knead it, and make bread.'

  • Gen 27:9-10
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    9Go to the flock and bring me two choice young goats, so that I can prepare a tasty meal for your father, just the way he loves it.

    10Then take it to your father to eat, so that he may bless you before he dies.

  • Gen 27:14
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    14So he went and got them and brought them to his mother, and his mother prepared a tasty meal, just the way his father liked it.

  • Gen 21:27-28
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    27So Abraham took sheep and cattle and gave them to Abimelech, and the two of them made a covenant.

    28Abraham set apart seven ewe lambs from the flock.

  • Gen 22:2-3
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    2Then God said, 'Take your son, your only son, whom you love—Isaac—and go to the land of Moriah. Offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains I will tell you about.'

    3Abraham got up early in the morning, saddled his donkey, and took with him two of his young men and his son Isaac. He split the wood for the burnt offering, set out, and went to the place God had told him to go.

  • Gen 24:33-34
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    33Then food was set before him, but he said, "I will not eat until I have said what I need to say." Laban said, "Speak up."

    34So he said, "I am Abraham’s servant.

  • Gen 27:17
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    17Then she handed the tasty food and the bread she had prepared to her son Jacob.

  • Gen 27:31
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    31He too prepared a tasty meal and brought it to his father. And he said, 'My father, please sit up and eat some of my game, so that you may bless me.'

  • Gen 22:13
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    13Then Abraham looked up and saw a ram caught by its horns in a thicket. So he went and took the ram, and he offered it as a burnt offering instead of his son.

  • Gen 18:2
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    2Looking up, he saw three men standing nearby. When he saw them, he ran from the entrance of the tent to meet them and bowed down to the ground.

  • Gen 22:5-10
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    5Abraham said to his servants, 'Stay here with the donkey. The boy and I will go over there to worship, and then we will come back to you.'

    6Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and placed it on his son Isaac. He carried the fire and the knife in his own hands, and the two of them walked on together.

    7Isaac spoke to his father Abraham, 'My father!' 'Here I am, my son,' Abraham replied. Isaac said, 'The fire and the wood are here, but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?'

    8Abraham answered, 'God Himself will provide the lamb for the burnt offering, my son.' And the two of them walked on together.

    9When they reached the place God had told him about, Abraham built an altar there, arranged the wood on it, bound his son Isaac, and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood.

    10Then Abraham reached out his hand, took the knife, and prepared to slaughter his son.

  • Judg 6:19
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    19So Gideon went and prepared a young goat and from an ephah of flour made unleavened bread. He put the meat in a basket and the broth in a pot, and brought them out and offered them under the terebinth tree.

  • Gen 15:9
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    9The LORD said to him, "Bring Me a three-year-old heifer, a three-year-old female goat, a three-year-old ram, a turtledove, and a young pigeon."

  • Gen 27:7
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    7He said, 'Bring me some game and prepare a tasty meal for me, so that I may eat and bless you in the presence of the LORD before I die.'

  • Gen 21:8
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    8The child grew and was weaned, and on the day Isaac was weaned, Abraham held a great feast.

  • 1 Sam 28:24
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    24The woman had a fattened calf in the house. She hurried to slaughter it. Then she took flour, kneaded it, and baked unleavened bread.

  • Gen 24:12
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    12Then he prayed, "Lord, God of my master Abraham, please grant me success today and show kindness to my master Abraham."

  • Gen 24:28
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    28The young woman ran and told her mother’s household about these things.

  • Gen 27:5
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    5Now Rebekah was listening as Isaac spoke to his son Esau. When Esau went out into the field to hunt game and bring it back,

  • Gen 27:20
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    20Isaac asked his son, 'How did you find it so quickly, my son?' 'Because the LORD your God brought it to me,' Jacob replied.

  • Gen 19:27
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    27Early the next morning, Abraham got up and returned to the place where he had stood before the LORD.