OLD TESTAMENT

1 Samuel 16:20

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Jesse took a donkey loaded with bread, a container of wine, and a young goat, and sent them by David his son to Saul.

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Verse 20. Laden. So Chal. Menochius.—Lit. plenum, “full of.” Bible.—Septuagint “a gomor,” which they seem to have read instead of the Hebrew chamor, “an ass of bread,” as Sosibius says, “he eats three asses’ of panniers of loaves.” Calmet.—Prot. supply, “laden.”

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