And when she had gone out, she said to her mother, What shall I ask? And she said, The head of John [the] Baptist.
And Jonadab answered to him, Lie thou on thy bed, and feign thou sickness; and when thy father cometh, that he visit thee, say thou to him, I pray, come Tamar, my sister, that she give meat to me, and make a stew, that I eat it of her hand.
if the men of my tabernacle said not, Who giveth, that we be [ful] filled of his fleshes?
The while noisome men nigh on me; for to eat my fleshes. Mine enemies, that troubled me; they were made sick and felled [or fell] down.
A sinner shall ambush the rightful [or rightwise] man; and he shall gnash with his teeth on him.
Sinners have drawn out sword; they bent their bow. To deceive a poor man and needy; to strangle rightful [or right] men of heart.
And she before-warned [or before admonished] of her mother, said, Give thou to me here the head of John Baptist in a dish.
In those days John Baptist came, and preached in the desert of Judea,
And he swore to her, That what-ever thou ask, I shall give to thee, though it be half of my kingdom.
And when she was come in anon with haste to the king, she asked, and said, I will that anon, thou give to me in a dish the head of John Baptist.