Bible verse
He asked for water, and she gave him milk. In a magnificent bowl she brought him curds.
Judges 5:25 · BSB
The verses around it, from Judges 5.
21 The River Kishon swept them away, the ancient river, the River Kishon. March on, O my soul, in strength!
22 Then the hooves of horses thundered—the mad galloping of his stallions.
23 ‘Curse Meroz,’ says the angel of the LORD. ‘Bitterly curse her inhabitants; for they did not come to help the LORD, to help the LORD against the mighty.’
24 Most blessed among women is Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite, most blessed of tent-dwelling women.
25 He asked for water, and she gave him milk. In a magnificent bowl she brought him curds.
26 She reached for the tent peg, her right hand for the workman’s hammer. She struck Sisera and crushed his skull; she shattered and pierced his temple.
27 At her feet he collapsed, he fell, there he lay still; at her feet he collapsed, he fell; where he collapsed, there he fell dead.
28 Sisera’s mother looked through the window; she peered through the lattice and lamented: ‘Why is his chariot so long in coming? What has delayed the clatter of his chariots?’
29 Her wisest ladies answer; indeed she keeps telling herself,
KJV
He asked water, [and] she gave [him] milk; she brought forth butter in a lordly dish.
ASV
He asked water, and she gave him milk; She brought him butter in a lordly dish.
ERV
He asked water, and she gave him milk; she brought him butter in a lordly dish.
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