2Sa 9:10 | NETfull | STEP | You will cultivate the land for him – you and your sons and your servants. You will bring its produce and it will be food for your master’s grandson to eat. But Mephibosheth, your master’s grandson, will be a regular guest at my table.” (Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.)

2 Samuel 9:10

10 You will cultivate ^{▼▼ Heb “work.”} the land for him – you and your sons and your servants. You will bring its produce ^{▼▼ The Hebrew text implies, but does not actually contain, the words “its produce” here.} and it will be ^{▼▼ The words “it will be,” though present in the MT, are absent from the LXX, the Syriac Peshitta, and Vulgate.} food for your master’s grandson to eat. ^{▼▼ Heb “and he will eat it.”} But Mephibosheth, your master’s grandson, will be a regular guest at my table.” (Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.)