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Jonadab said to him, “Lay down on your bed and pretend to be sick. When your father comes to see you, tell him, ‘Please let my sister Tamar come and give me bread to eat, and prepare the food in my sight, that I may see it and eat it from her hand.’”
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Verse 5. To me. Hebrew “and give me meat, and dress the meat in my sight, that I may see it, and eat it,” and so forth Bible.—He pretends to be disgusted with food, ( Calmet.) unless he see his sister make it ready. Bible.
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