18 Then Abigail made haste and took two hundred loaves and two skins of wine and five sheep already prepared and five seahs[a] of parched grain and a hundred clusters of raisins and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on donkeys.

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  1. 1 Samuel 25:18 A seah was about 7 quarts or 7.3 liters

David and Ziba

16 When David had passed a little beyond (A)the summit, (B)Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth met him, with a couple of donkeys saddled, bearing two hundred loaves of bread, (C)a hundred bunches of raisins, a hundred of summer fruits, and a skin of wine.

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25 (A)Come to terms quickly with your accuser while you are going with him to court, lest your accuser hand you over to the judge, and the judge to the guard, and you be put in prison.

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16 A man's (A)gift makes room for him
    and brings him before the great.

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14 (A)A gift in secret averts anger,
    and a concealed bribe,[a] strong wrath.

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  1. Proverbs 21:14 Hebrew a bribe in the bosom

(A)Give your eyes no sleep
    and your eyelids no slumber;
save yourself like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter,[a]
    (B)like a bird from the hand of the fowler.

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  1. Proverbs 6:5 Hebrew lacks of the hunter

40 And also their relatives, from as far as Issachar and Zebulun and Naphtali, came bringing food on donkeys and on camels and on mules and on oxen, abundant provisions of flour, (A)cakes of figs, clusters of raisins, and wine and oil, oxen and sheep, for there was joy in Israel.

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28 brought beds, basins, and earthen vessels, wheat, barley, flour, parched grain, beans and lentils,[a] 29 honey and curds and sheep and cheese from the herd, for David and the people with him to eat, for they said, “The people are hungry and (A)weary and thirsty (B)in the wilderness.”

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  1. 2 Samuel 17:28 Hebrew adds and parched grain

34 For as surely (A)as the Lord, the God of Israel, lives, (B)who has restrained me from hurting you, unless you had hurried and come to meet me, truly by morning there had not been left to Nabal so much as one male.”

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46 And Moses said to Aaron, “Take your censer, and put fire on it from off the altar and lay incense on it and carry it quickly to the congregation and make atonement for them, for (A)wrath has gone out from the Lord; the plague has begun.” 47 So Aaron took it as Moses said and ran into the midst of the assembly. And behold, the plague had already begun among the people. And he put on the incense and made atonement for the people. 48 And he stood between the dead and the living, and (B)the plague was stopped.

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11 Then their father Israel said to them, “If it must be so, then do this: take some of the choice fruits of the land in your bags, and carry a present down to the man, a little (A)balm and a little honey, gum, myrrh, pistachio nuts, and almonds. 12 Take double the money with you. Carry back with you the money (B)that was returned in the mouth of your sacks. Perhaps it was an oversight. 13 Take also your brother, and arise, go again to the man. 14 May (C)God Almighty[a] (D)grant you mercy before the man, and may he send back your other brother and Benjamin. And as for me, (E)if I am bereaved of my children, I am bereaved.”

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  1. Genesis 43:14 Hebrew El Shaddai

13 So he stayed there that night, and from what he had with him he took (A)a present for his brother Esau, 14 two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams, 15 thirty milking camels and their calves, forty cows and ten bulls, twenty female donkeys and ten male donkeys. 16 These he handed over to his servants, every drove by itself, and said to his servants, “Pass on ahead of me and put a space between drove and drove.” 17 He instructed the first, “When Esau my brother meets you and asks you, ‘To whom do you belong? Where are you going? And whose are these ahead of you?’ 18 then you shall say, ‘They belong to your servant Jacob. They are a present sent to my lord Esau. And moreover, he is behind us.’” 19 He likewise instructed the second and the third and all who followed the droves, “You shall say the same thing to Esau when you find him, 20 and you shall say, ‘Moreover, your servant Jacob is behind us.’” For he thought, “I may appease him[a] with the present that goes ahead of me, and afterward I shall see his face. Perhaps he will accept me.”[b]

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  1. Genesis 32:20 Hebrew appease his face
  2. Genesis 32:20 Hebrew he will lift my face

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