'Once' in the Bible
And let me bring a piece of bread, then refresh {yourselves}. Afterward you can pass on, {once} you have passed by with your servant." Then they said, "Do so as you have said."
And {once again he spoke} to him and said, "What if forty are found there?" And he answered, "I will not do [it] on account of the forty."
And he said, "Please, let not my Lord be angry, and I will speak only once more. What if ten are found there?" And he answered, "I will not destroy [it] for the sake of the ten."
Once Jacob cooked a thick stew, and Esau came in from the field, and he was exhausted.
And once again she bore a son, and she called his name Shelah. And he was in Chezib when she bore him.
And they said, "Please, my lord, we surely came down once before to buy food,