And they said, The man asked us carefully of our state, and of our kindred, saying, Is your father yet alive? have you another brother? and we told him according to the tenor of these words: could we in any way know that he would say, Bring your brother down?

And the LORD said unto Moses, Write these words: for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.

Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a fatted ox with hatred.

Again, he sent forth other servants, saying, Tell them who are bidden, Behold, I have prepared my dinner: my oxen and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready: come unto the marriage.

And when the Pharisee saw it, he marveled that he had not first washed before dinner.

Then said he also to him that bade him, When you give a dinner or a supper, call not your friends, nor your brethren, neither your kinsmen, nor your rich neighbors; lest they also bid you again, and a recompense be made you.

And it came to pass, that he tarried many days in Joppa with one Simon a tanner.

He lodges with one Simon a tanner, whose house is by the seaside: he shall tell you what you ought to do.

Send therefore to Joppa, and call here Simon, whose surname is Peter; he is lodged in the house of one Simon a tanner by the seaside: who, when he comes, shall speak unto you.