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10 But David pursued [the Amalekites], he and four hundred men, for two hundred who were too exhausted to cross the brook Besor stayed behind.

11 They found an Egyptian [who had collapsed] in the field and brought him to David, and gave him bread and he ate, and they gave him water to drink, 12 and they gave him a piece of a fig cake and two clusters of raisins; and when he had eaten, his [a]energy returned, for he had not eaten bread or had any water to drink for three days and three nights.

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  1. 1 Samuel 30:12 Lit spirit.

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