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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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Footnotes

  1. 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”).
  2. 1 Samuel 25:8 tn This refers to the ten servants sent by David.
  3. 1 Samuel 25:8 tn Heb “whatever your hand will find.”

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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