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1 Kings 13:17

“For I have been told by the word of the LORD: ‘You must not eat bread or drink water there or return by the way you came.’””

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¹⁵So the prophet said to the man of God, “Come home with me and eat some bread.”

¹⁶But the man replied, “I cannot go home with you, and I will not eat bread or drink water with you in this place.

¹⁷For I have been told by the word of the LORD: ‘You must not eat bread or drink water there or return by the way you came.’”

¹⁸Then the prophet replied, “I too am a prophet like you, and an angel spoke to me by the word of the LORD, saying, ‘Bring him back with you to your house, so that he may eat bread and drink water.’” The old prophet was lying to him,

¹⁹But the man of God went back with him, ate bread in his house, and drank water.

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