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16 They were a wall to us night and day, all the time we were with them keeping the sheep.

17 So know this and consider what you will do, for evil is determined against our master and all his house. For he is such a wicked man that one cannot speak to him.

18 Then Abigail made haste and took 200 loaves, two skins of wine, five sheep already dressed, five measures of parched grain, 100 clusters of raisins, and 200 cakes of figs, and laid them on donkeys.

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16 Night and day they were a wall(A) around us the whole time we were herding our sheep near them. 17 Now think it over and see what you can do, because disaster is hanging over our master and his whole household. He is such a wicked(B) man that no one can talk to him.”

18 Abigail acted quickly. She took two hundred loaves of bread, two skins of wine, five dressed sheep, five seahs[a] of roasted grain,(C) a hundred cakes of raisins(D) and two hundred cakes of pressed figs, and loaded them on donkeys.(E)

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 25:18 That is, probably about 60 pounds or about 27 kilograms