so David sent ten young men instructing them, “Go up to Carmel, and when you come to Nabal, greet him[a] in my name. Then say this: ‘Long life to you,[b] and peace to you, peace to your family, and peace to all that is yours.(A) I hear that you are shearing.[c] When your shepherds were with us, we did not harass them, and nothing of theirs was missing the whole time they were in Carmel.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 25:5 Or Nabal, ask him for peace
  2. 25:6 Lit ‘To life
  3. 25:7 Lit you have shearers

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