We getour breadat the risk of our livesBecauseof the swordin the wilderness.
and he said,"Be it farfrom me, O LORD,that I should dothis.[Shall I drink] the bloodof the menwho wentin [jeopardy] of their lives?"Therefore he wouldnot drinkit. Thesethingsthe threemightymendid.
becauseof the Chaldeans;for they were afraidof them, sinceIshmaelthe sonof Nethaniahhad struckdownGedaliahthe sonof Ahikam,whomthe kingof Babylonhad appointedover the land.
saying,"No,but we will goto the landof Egypt,wherewe will not seewaror hearthe soundof a trumpetor hungerfor bread,and we will staythere";
then the sword,whichyou are afraidof, will overtakeyou therein the landof Egypt;and the famine,about whichyou are anxious,will followcloselyafteryou there[in] Egypt,and you will diethere.
Then the angelof the LORDcameand satunderthe oakthat was in Ophrah,whichbelonged to Joashthe Abiezriteas his sonGideonwas beatingout wheatin the winepressin order to save[it] from the Midianites.
