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1 Samuel 25:7-9
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7 Now I hear that they are shearing sheep for you. When your shepherds were with us, we neither insulted them nor harmed them the whole time they were in Carmel. 8 Ask your own servants; they can tell you! May my servants find favor in your sight, for we have come[a] at the time of a holiday. Please provide us—your servants[b] and your son David—with whatever you can spare.’”[c]

9 So David’s servants went and spoke all these words to Nabal in David’s name. Then they paused.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 25:8 tc The translation follows many medieval Hebrew mss in reading בָּאנוּ (baʾnu, “we have come”) rather than the MT’s בָּנוּ (banu, “we have built”).
  2. 1 Samuel 25:8 tn This refers to the ten servants sent by David.
  3. 1 Samuel 25:8 tn Heb “whatever your hand will find.”
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