1 Kings 13:17
Good News Translation
because the LORD has commanded me not to eat or drink a thing, and not to return home the same way I came."

New Revised Standard Version
for it was said to me by the word of the LORD: You shall not eat food or drink water there, or return by the way that you came.”

Contemporary English Version
The LORD warned me not to eat or drink or to go home the same way I came."

New American Bible
“for I was told by the word of the LORD: You shall not eat bread or drink water there, and do not go back the way you came.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
Because the Lord spoke to me, in the word of the Lord, saying: Thou shalt not eat bread, and thou shalt not drink water there, nor return by the way thou wentest.

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Because the Lord spoke to me, in the word of the Lord, saying: Thou shalt not eat bread, and thou shalt not drink water there, nor return by the way thou wentest.

It was [heb] a word was

1 Kings 13:1 And behold there came a man of God out of Juda, by the word of the Lord, to Bethel, when Jeroboam was standing upon the altar, and burning incense.

1 Kings 20:35 Then a certain man of the sons of the prophets, said to his companion, in the word of the Lord: Strike me. But he would not strike.

1 Thessalonians 4:15 For this we say unto you in the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who remain unto the coming of the Lord, shall not prevent them who have slept.

Context
The Old Prophet and the Man of God
16But he said: I must not return, nor go with thee, neither will I eat bread, or drink water in this place: 17Because the Lord spoke to me, in the word of the Lord, saying: Thou shalt not eat bread, and thou shalt not drink water there, nor return by the way thou wentest.18He said to him: I also am a prophet like unto thee: and an angel spoke to me, in the word of the Lord, saying: Bring him back with thee into thy house, that he may eat bread, and drink water. He deceived him,…
Cross References
1 Thessalonians 4:15
For this we say unto you in the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who remain unto the coming of the Lord, shall not prevent them who have slept.

1 Kings 13:8
And the man of God answered the king: If thou wouldst give me half thy house, I will not go with thee, nor eat bread, nor drink water in this place:

1 Kings 20:35
Then a certain man of the sons of the prophets, said to his companion, in the word of the Lord: Strike me. But he would not strike.

1 Kings 13:16
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