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17 Now be aware of this, and see what you can do. For disaster has been planned for our lord and his entire household.[a] He is such a wicked person[b] that no one tells him anything!”

18 So Abigail quickly took 200 loaves of bread, two containers[c] of wine, five prepared sheep, five seahs[d] of roasted grain, 100 bunches of raisins, and 200 lumps of pressed figs. She loaded them on donkeys 19 and said to her servants, “Go on ahead of me. I will come after you.” But she did not tell her husband Nabal.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 25:17 tn Heb “all his house” (so ASV, NRSV); NAB, NLT “his whole family.”
  2. 1 Samuel 25:17 tn Heb “he is a son of worthlessness.”
  3. 1 Samuel 25:18 tn Heb “skins.”
  4. 1 Samuel 25:18 sn The seah was a dry measure equal to one-third of an ephah, or not quite eleven quarts.