Genesis 18:7

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Then Abraham ran to the herd and chose a fine, tender calf, and gave it to a servant, who quickly prepared it.

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  • Gen 19:3 : 3 But he urged them persistently, so they turned aside with him and entered his house. He prepared a feast for them, including bread baked without yeast, and they ate.
  • Judg 13:15-16 : 15 Manoah said to the LORD’s angel,“Please stay here awhile, so we can prepare a young goat for you to eat.” 16 The LORD’s angel said to Manoah,“If I stay, I will not eat your food. But if you want to make a burnt sacrifice to the LORD, you should offer it.”(He said this because Manoah did not know that he was the LORD’s angel.)
  • Amos 6:4 : 4 They lie around on beds decorated with ivory, and sprawl out on their couches. They eat lambs from the flock, and calves from the middle of the pen.
  • Mal 1:14 : 14 “There will be harsh condemnation for the hypocrite who has a valuable male animal in his flock but vows and sacrifices something inferior to the Lord. For I am a great king,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies,“and my name is awesome among the nations.”
  • Matt 22:4 : 4 Again he sent other slaves, saying,‘Tell those who have been invited,“Look! The feast I have prepared for you is ready. My oxen and fattened cattle have been slaughtered, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding banquet.”’
  • Luke 15:23 : 23 Bring the fattened calf and kill it! Let us eat and celebrate,
  • Luke 15:27 : 27 The slave replied,‘Your brother has returned, and your father has killed the fattened calf because he got his son back safe and sound.’
  • Luke 15:30 : 30 But when this son of yours came back, who has devoured your assets with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him!’

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  • Gen 18:8-9
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    8Abraham then took some curds and milk, along with the calf that had been prepared, and placed the food before them. They ate while he was standing near them under a tree.

    9Then they asked him,“Where is Sarah your wife?” He replied,“There, in the tent.”

  • Gen 18:5-6
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    5And let me get a bit of food so that you may refresh yourselves since you have passed by your servant’s home. After that you may be on your way.”“All right,” they replied,“you may do as you say.”

    6So Abraham hurried into the tent and said to Sarah,“Quick! Take three measures of fine flour, knead it, and make bread.”

  • Gen 27:9-10
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    9Go to the flock and get me two of the best young goats. I’ll prepare them in a tasty way for your father, just the way he loves them.

    10Then you will take it to your father. Thus he will eat it and bless you before he dies.”

  • Gen 27:14
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    14So he went and got the goats and brought them to his mother. She prepared some tasty food, just the way his father loved it.

  • Gen 21:27-28
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    27Abraham took some sheep and cattle and gave them to Abimelech. The two of them made a treaty.

    28Then Abraham set seven ewe lambs apart from the flock by themselves.

  • Gen 22:2-3
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    2God said,“Take your son– your only son, whom you love, Isaac– and go to the land of Moriah! Offer him up there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains which I will indicate to you.”

    3Early in the morning Abraham got up and saddled his donkey. He took two of his young servants with him, along with his son Isaac. When he had cut the wood for the burnt offering, he started out for the place God had spoken to him about.

  • Gen 24:33-34
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    33When food was served, he said,“I will not eat until I have said what I want to say.”“Tell us,” Laban said.

    34“I am the servant of Abraham,” he began.

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

  • Gen 27:31
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    31He also prepared some tasty food and brought it to his father. Esau said to him,“My father, get up and eat some of your son’s wild game. Then you can bless me.”

  • Gen 22:13
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    13Abraham looked up and saw behind him a ram caught in the bushes by its horns. So he went over and got the ram and offered it up as a burnt offering instead of his son.

  • Gen 18:2
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    2Abraham looked up and saw three men standing across from him. When he saw them he ran from the entrance of the tent to meet them and bowed low to the ground.

  • Gen 22:5-10
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    5So he said to his servants,“You two stay here with the donkey while the boy and I go up there. We will worship and then return to you.”

    6Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and put it on his son Isaac. Then he took the fire and the knife in his hand, and the two of them walked on together.

    7Isaac said to his father Abraham,“My father?”“What is it, my son?” he replied.“Here is the fire and the wood,” Isaac said,“but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?”

    8“God will provide for himself the lamb for the burnt offering, my son,” Abraham replied. The two of them continued on together.

    9When they came to the place God had told him about, Abraham built the altar there and arranged the wood on it. Next he tied up his son Isaac and placed 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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    19Gideon went and prepared a young goat, along with unleavened bread made from an ephah of flour. He put the meat in a basket and the broth in a pot. He brought the food to him under the oak tree and presented it to him.

  • Gen 15:9
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    9The LORD said to him,“Take for me a heifer, a goat, and a ram, each three years old, along with a dove and a young pigeon.”

  • Gen 27:7
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    7‘Bring me some wild game and prepare for me some tasty food. Then I will eat it 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. Abraham prepared a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned.

  • 1 Sam 28:24
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    24Now the woman had a well-fed calf at her home that she quickly slaughtered. Taking some flour, she kneaded it and baked bread without leaven.

  • Gen 24:12
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    12He prayed,“O LORD, God of my master Abraham, guide me today. Be faithful to my master Abraham.

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

  • Gen 27:5
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    5Now Rebekah had been listening while Isaac spoke to his son Esau. When Esau went out to the open fields to hunt down some wild game and bring it back,

  • Gen 27:20
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    20But Isaac asked his son,“How in the world did you find it so quickly, my son?”“Because the LORD your God brought it to me,” he replied.

  • Gen 19:27
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    27Abraham got up early in the morning and went to the place where he had stood before the LORD.