Now therefore, I pray thee, hearken thou also unto the voice of thine handmaid, and let me set a morsel of bread before thee; and eat, that thou mayest have strength, when thou goest on thy way' — the woman's care ('ûʿattāh šmʿ-nāʾ gam-ʾattāh bekôl ʿamtᵊkā') provides physical sustenance in the face of spiritual devastation. The bread ('pat leḥem') becomes a gesture of human kindness in the shadow of divine judgment.

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