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40 When David’s servants came to Abigail at Carmel, they spoke to her and said, “David has sent us to you to bring you to him as his wife.”

41 She got up and bowed down with her face to the ground. She said, “Behold. I, your humblest servant,[a] am here ready to wash the feet of the servants of my lord.” 42 Abigail hurried and set out, riding on a donkey, with five young women who were her attendants following her. She went with the messengers of David and became his wife.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 25:41 Here, as in verse 27, the lower status word for female servant is used.