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1 Samuel 25:17-20 English Standard Version (ESV)

17. Now therefore know this and consider what you should do, for harm is determined against our master and against all his house, and he is such a worthless man that one cannot speak to him.”

18. Then Abigail made haste and took two hundred loaves and two skins of wine and five sheep already prepared and five seahs of parched grain and a hundred clusters of raisins and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on donkeys.

19. And she said to her young men, “Go on before me; behold, I come after you.” But she did not tell her husband Nabal.

20. And as she rode on the donkey and came down under cover of the mountain, behold, David and his men came down toward her, and she met them.

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