1 Samuel 28:24

28:24 Now the woman ¹  had a well-fed calf ²  at her home that she quickly slaughtered. Taking some flour, she kneaded bread and baked it without leaven.

Lukas 15:23

15:23 Bring ³  the fattened calf ⁴  and kill it! Let us eat ⁵  and celebrate,

[28:24]  ¹ sn Masoretic mss of the Hebrew Bible mark this word as the half-way point in the book of Samuel, treating 1 and 2 Samuel as a single book. Similar notations are found at the midway point for all of the books of the Hebrew Bible.

[28:24]  ² tn Heb “a calf of the stall.”

[15:23]  ³ tn Grk “And bring.” Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style. Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation.

[15:23]  ⁴ tn Or “the prize calf” (L&N 65.8). See also L&N 44.2, “grain-fattened.” Such a calf was usually reserved for religious celebrations.

[15:23]  ⁵ tn The participle φαγόντες (fagontes) has been translated as a finite verb due to requirements of contemporary English style.