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1 Samuel 17:16-18
International Standard Version
1 Samuel 17:16-18
International Standard Version
16 For 40 days the Philistine would come forward, morning and evening, to take his position.
17 Jesse told his son David, “Take this ephah[a] of roasted grain to your brothers, along with these ten loaves of bread, and quickly take them to your brothers in the camp. 18 Take these ten pieces of cheese to the commander of the unit,[b] check on the well-being of your brothers, and bring something back from them.
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- 1 Samuel 17:17 I.e. about a half-bushel; an ephah was a measure of dry capacity equal to about one half of a bushel
- 1 Samuel 17:18 Lit. thousand
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