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Then you must say to him, ‘Long life to you, and may it go well with you, with your house, and with all that is yours.[a] Now I have heard that you have shearers.[b] Now while your shepherds were with us, we did not mistreat them, and nothing of theirs was missing, all the days they were in Carmel. Ask your servants[c] and they will tell you! Let the young men[d] find favor in your eyes because we have come on a feast day. Please give whatever you have on hand[e] for your servants and for your son David.”

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 25:6 Literally “you are peace and your house is peace and all that is yours is peace”
  2. 1 Samuel 25:7 Literally “shearing is for you”
  3. 1 Samuel 25:8 Or “young men”
  4. 1 Samuel 25:8 Or “the servants”; “young men” is used here to connect with v. 5
  5. 1 Samuel 25:8 Literally “what your hand finds”