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1 Samuel 25:16-20 New English Translation (NET)

16. Both night and day they were a protective wall for us the entire time we were with them, while we were tending our flocks.

17. Now be aware of this, and see what you can do. For disaster has been planned for our lord and his entire household. He is such a wicked person that no one tells him anything!”

18. So Abigail quickly took two hundred loaves of bread, two containers of wine, five prepared sheep, five seahs of roasted grain, a hundred bunches of raisins, and two hundred lumps of pressed figs. She loaded them on donkeys

19. and said to her servants, “Go on ahead of me. I will come after you.” But she did not tell her husband Nabal.

20. Riding on her donkey, she went down under cover of the mountain. David and his men were coming down to meet her, and she encountered them.

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