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1 Samuel 25:18-20
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1 Samuel 25:18-20
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18 Abigail quickly gathered up 200 loaves of bread, two full wine bags, five cooked sheep, about a bushel[a] of cooked grain, about 2 quarts[b] of raisins, and 200 cakes of pressed figs. She put them on donkeys. 19 Then Abigail told her servants, “Go on. I’ll follow you.” But she did not tell her husband.
20 Abigail rode her donkey down to the other side of the mountain. She met David and his men coming from the other direction.
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- 1 Samuel 25:18 about a bushel Literally, “5 seahs” (36.5 l).
- 1 Samuel 25:18 about 2 quarts Literally, “1 omer” (2.2 l).
1 Samuel 25:18-20
New International Version
1 Samuel 25:18-20
New International Version
18 Abigail acted quickly. She took two hundred loaves of bread, two skins of wine, five dressed sheep, five seahs[a] of roasted grain,(A) a hundred cakes of raisins(B) and two hundred cakes of pressed figs, and loaded them on donkeys.(C) 19 Then she told her servants, “Go on ahead;(D) I’ll follow you.” But she did not tell(E) her husband Nabal.
20 As she came riding her donkey into a mountain ravine, there were David and his men descending toward her, and she met them.
Footnotes
- 1 Samuel 25:18 That is, probably about 60 pounds or about 27 kilograms
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