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Now I have heard that you have shearers.[a] Now while your shepherds were with us, we did not mistreat them, and nothing of theirs was missing, all the days they were in Carmel. Ask your servants[b] and they will tell you! Let the young men[c] find favor in your eyes because we have come on a feast day. Please give whatever you have on hand[d] for your servants and for your son David.”

So David’s young men came and they spoke all these words to Nabal in the name of David. Then they waited.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 25:7 Literally “shearing is for you”
  2. 1 Samuel 25:8 Or “young men”
  3. 1 Samuel 25:8 Or “the servants”; “young men” is used here to connect with v. 5
  4. 1 Samuel 25:8 Literally “what your hand finds”