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Genesis 24:33
And bread was set before him. But he said: I will not eat, till I tell my message. He answered him: Speak.
Genesis 24:33 · Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner)
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Genesis 24:33 in other translations
And there was set meat before him to eat: but he said, I will not eat, until I have told mine errand. And he said, Speak on.
Then a meal was set before the man, but he said, “I will not eat until I have told you what I came to say.” So Laban said, “Please speak.”
Food was set before him to eat, but he said, “I will not eat until I have told my message.” Laban said, “Speak on.”
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In context
30 And when he had seen the earrings and bracelets in his sister's hands, and had heard all that she related, saying, Thus and thus the man spoke to me: he came to the man who stood by the camels, and near to the spring of water,
31 And said to him: Come in, thou blessed of the Lord; why standest thou without? I have prepared the house, and a place for the camels.
32 And he brought him into his lodging; and he unharnessed the camels, and gave straw and hay, and water to wash his feet, and the feet of the men that were come with him.
33 And bread was set before him. But he said: I will not eat, till I tell my message. He answered him: Speak.
34 And he said: I am the servant of Abraham:
35 And the Lord hath blessed my master wonderfully, and he is become great: and he hath given him sheep and oxen, silver and gold, men servants and women servants, camels and asses.
36 And Sara, my master's wife, hath borne my master a son in her old age, and he hath given him all that he had.
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