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17 Now therefore know this and consider what you should do; for evil is determined against our master and against all his house, and he is so ill-natured that one cannot speak to him.”

18 Then Ab′igail made haste, and took two hundred loaves, and two skins of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five measures of parched grain, and a hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on asses. 19 And she said to her young men, “Go on before me; behold, I come after you.” But she did not tell her husband Nabal.

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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(A) 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,(B) a hundred cakes of raisins(C) and two hundred cakes of pressed figs, and loaded them on donkeys.(D) 19 Then she told her servants, “Go on ahead;(E) I’ll follow you.” But she did not tell(F) her husband Nabal.

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Footnotes

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