1 Samuel 10:4

Christian Standard Bible

⁴They will ask how you are and give you two loaves^[a] of bread, which you will accept from them.

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10:4 DSS, LXX read wave offerings

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1 Samuel 10:27

Christian Standard Bible

²⁷But some wicked men said, “How can this guy save us?” They despised him and did not bring him a gift,^(A) but Saul said nothing.^[a]^[b]

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10:27 DSS add Nahash king of the Ammonites had been severely oppressing the Gadites and Reubenites. He gouged out the right eye of each of them and brought fear and trembling on Israel. Of the Israelites beyond the Jordan none remained whose right eye Nahash, king of the Ammonites, had not gouged out. But there were seven thousand men who had escaped from the Ammonites and entered Jabesh-gilead.
10:27 Lit gift, and he was like a mute person

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Proverbs 18:16

Christian Standard Bible

¹⁶A person’s gift opens doors^[a] for him
and brings him before the great.^(A)

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18:16 Lit gift makes room

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