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Note 3 — He who gathered food for an eagle

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Her father brought her last. And he invited her father into his own house. He then married her. She was not pretty, but he married her because she had left food for him.3 And because the woman helped him to live coals he brought down food to her father. But his nine [remaining] uncles began to buy food from him. Because he gathered food for the eagle they (the daughters) did not marry him. For that reason he, too, would not give them food.

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