⁴⁰ When the servants of David came to Abigail at Carmel, they spoke to her, saying, “David has sent us to you to take you to him as his wife.” ⁴¹ And she got up ^(A)and bowed with her face to the ground, and said, “Behold, your slave is a servant ^(B)to wash the feet of my lord’s servants.” ⁴² Then ^(C)Abigail got up quickly, and rode on a donkey, with her five female attendants who ^[a]accompanied her; and she followed the messengers of David and became his wife.