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1 Samuel 25:8
New English Translation
1 Samuel 25:8
New English Translation
8 Ask your own servants; they can tell you! May my servants find favor in your sight, for we have come[a] at the time of a holiday. Please provide us—your servants[b] and your son David—with whatever you can spare.’”[c]
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- 1 Samuel 25:8 tc The translation follows many medieval Hebrew mss in reading בָּאנוּ (baʾnu, “we have come”) rather than the MT’s בָּנוּ (banu, “we have built”).
- 1 Samuel 25:8 tn This refers to the ten servants sent by David.
- 1 Samuel 25:8 tn Heb “whatever your hand will find.”
1 Samuel 25:8
King James Version
1 Samuel 25:8
King James Version
8 Ask thy young men, and they will shew thee. Wherefore let the young men find favour in thine eyes: for we come in a good day: give, I pray thee, whatsoever cometh to thine hand unto thy servants, and to thy son David.
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