Bible verse
Then a meal was set before the man, but he said, “I will not eat until I have told you what I came to say.” So Laban said, “Please speak.”
Genesis 24:33 · BSB
The verses around it, from Genesis 24.
29 Now Rebekah had a brother named Laban, and he rushed out to the man at the spring.
30 As soon as he saw the ring, and the bracelets on his sister’s wrists, and heard Rebekah’s words, “The man said this to me,” he went and found the man standing by the camels near the spring.
31 “Come, you who are blessed by the LORD,” said Laban. “Why are you standing out here? I have prepared the house and a place for the camels.”
32 So the man came to the house, and the camels were unloaded. Straw and feed were brought to the camels, and water to wash his feet and the feet of his companions.
33 Then a meal was set before the man, but he said, “I will not eat until I have told you what I came to say.” So Laban said, “Please speak.”
34 “I am Abraham’s servant,” he replied.
35 “The LORD has greatly blessed my master, and he has become rich. He has given him sheep and cattle, silver and gold, menservants and maidservants, camels and donkeys.
36 My master’s wife Sarah has borne him a son in her old age, and my master has given him everything he owns.
37 My master made me swear an oath and said, ‘You shall not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites in whose land I dwell,
KJV
And there was set [meat] before him to eat: but he said, I will not eat, until I have told mine errand. And he said, Speak on.
ASV
And there was set food before him to eat: but he said, I will not eat, until I have told mine errand. And he said, Speak on.
ERV
And there was set meat before him to eat: but he said, I will not eat, until I have told mine errand. And he said, Speak on.
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