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18 So Abigail quickly took 200 loaves of bread, two containers[a] of wine, five prepared sheep, five seahs[b] 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.

20 Riding on her donkey, she went down under cover of the mountain. David and his men were coming down to meet her, and she encountered them.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 25:18 tn Heb “skins.”
  2. 1 Samuel 25:18 sn The seah was a dry measure equal to one-third of an ephah, or not quite eleven quarts.