12 Ask me for as great a (A)bride-price[a] and gift as you will, and I will give whatever you say to me. Only give me the young woman to be my wife.”

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25 Then Saul said, “Thus shall you say to David, ‘The king desires no (A)bride-price except a hundred foreskins of the Philistines, (B)that he may be avenged of the king's enemies.’” (C)Now Saul thought to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines.

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