I will get a morsel of bread so you can refresh your heart. After that you may go your way, now that you have come to your servant.* They said, *Very well, do as you have said.*
1 Kings 17:11 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) As she was going to get it, he called to her, and said, Please bring me a morsel of bread in your hand. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And as she was going to fetch it, he called to her, and said, Bring me, I pray thee, a morsel of bread in thine hand. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition As she was going to get it, he called to her and said, Bring me a morsel of bread in your hand. American Standard Version (1901) And as she was going to fetch it, he called to her, and said, Bring me, I pray thee, a morsel of bread in thy hand. Common English Bible She went to get some water. He then said to her, “Please get me a piece of bread.” Catholic Public Domain Version And as she was going to bring it, he called out after her, saying, "Bring me also, I beg you, a morsel of bread in your hand." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And when she was going to fetch it he called after her, saying: Bring me also, I beseech thee, a morsel of bread in thy hand. |
I will get a morsel of bread so you can refresh your heart. After that you may go your way, now that you have come to your servant.* They said, *Very well, do as you have said.*
So he arose and went to Tzarfat; and when he came to the gate of the city, behold, a widow was there gathering sticks: and he called to her, and said, Please get me a little water in a vessel, that I may drink.
She said, As the LORD your God lives, I don't have a cake, but a handful of meal in the jar, and a little oil in the jar: and behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and bake it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die.
Arise, get you to Tzarfat, which belongs to Tzidon, and dwell there: behold, I have commanded a widow there to sustain you.
for it was so, when Izevel cut off the prophets of the LORD, that `Ovadyah 1 took one hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)
Whoever gives one of these little ones just a cup of cold water to drink in the name of a talmid, most certainly I tell you he will in no way lose his reward.*
Don't forget to show hospitality to strangers, for in doing so, some have entertained angels without knowing it.