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17 Now therefore know and consider what you will do; for evil is determined against our master, and against all his house; for he is such a worthless fellow that one can’t speak to him.”

18 Then Abigail hurried and took two hundred loaves of bread, two containers of wine, five sheep ready dressed, five seahs[a] of parched grain, one hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on donkeys. 19 She said to her young men, “Go on before me. Behold, I am coming after you.” But she didn’t tell her husband, Nabal.

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  1. 25:18 1 seah is about 7 liters or 1.9 gallons or 0.8 pecks

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