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16 The Philistine stepped forward morning and evening and took his stand daily for forty days.

17 Then Jesse said to David his son, “Take now for your brothers an ephah[a] of this parched grain and these ten loaves and run to the camp to your brothers. 18 Carry these ten cheeses to the captain of their thousand, and look into your brothers’ health, and bring back news of them.”

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  1. 1 Samuel 17:17 Likely about 36 pounds, or 16 kilograms.