Genesis 18:7
“A calf is served; behold, another mystery. The calf itself is not tough but "good and tender." And what is so tender, what so good as that One who "humbled himself" for us "to death" and "laid down his life for his friends"? He is the "fatted calf" which the father slaughtered to receive his repentant son. "For he so…”
Source: Septuagint
7And Abraham ran to the kine, and took a young calf, tender and good, and gave it to his servant, and he hastened to dress it.
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5And I will bring bread, and ye shall eat, and after this ye shall depart on your journey, on account of which refreshment ye have turned aside to your servant. And he said, So do, as thou hast said.
6And Abraham hastened to the tent to Sarah, and said to her, Hasten, and knead three measures of fine flour, and make cakes.
— Genesis 18:7 —
8And he took butter and milk, and the calf which he had dressed; and he set them before them, and they did eat, and he stood by them under the tree.
9And he said to him, Where is Sarah thy wife? And he answered and said, Behold! in the tent.