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40 David’s servants went to Abigail at Carmel and told her, “David sent us to you to take you to him as his wife.”

41 She got up, prostrated herself face down on the ground, and replied, “Your servant would be a slave to wash the feet of your majesty’s servants.” 42 Then Abigail quickly got up and got on a donkey, with five young women walking behind her.[a] She followed David’s messengers, and she became his wife.

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  1. 1 Samuel 25:42 Lit. walking at her feet; i.e. as her attendants