13:9a For this is what I was commanded by the word of the LORD:

For Yahweh gave me this order/command:
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This is because Yahweh ordered me

13:9b ‘You must not eat bread or drink water or return by the way you came.’”

‘You must not eat bread or drink water ⌊in Bethel⌋, and you must not return home by the same way you go.’”
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not to eat or drink anything ⌊here⌋, and to go home by a different way/route. ”

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