and go to the flock, and bring to me twain [or two] of the best kids, that I make meats of those to thy father, which he shall eat gladly;
and that when thou hast brought in those meats, and he hath eaten, he bless thee before that he die.
He went, and brought it, and gave it to his mother. She made ready meats, as she knew that his father would have,
make me a stew thereof, as thou knowest that I will or desire, and bring it to me that I eat, that my soul bless thee before that I die.
Now therefore, my son, assent to my counsels,
Therefore Manoah said to the angel of the Lord, I beseech, that thou assent to my prayers, and we array to thee, that is, make ready to meat, a kid of the goats.
And so Jesse took an ass charged with loaves, and a gallon of wine, and a goat kid; and he sent those by the hand of David his son to Saul.