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Ruth 2:14

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At mealtime: Job 31:16-22; Proverbs 11:24-25; Isaiah 32:8, Isaiah 58:7, Isaiah 58:10-11; Luke 14:12-14

dip thy morsel: Vinegar, robb of fruits, etc., are used for this purpose in the East to the present day; into which, says Dr. Shaw, they dip the bread and hand together.

parched: 1 Samuel 17:17, 1 Samuel 25:18; 2 Samuel 17:28

she did: Deuteronomy 8:10, Deuteronomy 11:15; 2 Kings 4:43-44; Matthew 14:20

was sufficed: Ruth 2:18; Psalms 23:5

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