11 Why should I take my bread and water and the meat I have slaughtered for my shearers, and give them to these men whose origin I do not know?”
1 Samuel 25:11
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Job 18:2–4
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Job 6:21–23
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2 Esdras 1:8–10
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Ezekiel 34:18–20
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