OLD TESTAMENT

1 Samuel 25:11

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Shall I then take my bread, my water, and my meat that I have killed for my shearers, and give it to men who I don’t know where they come from?”

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Verse 11. Water, under which name all sorts of drinks are included. Nabal had plenty of wine, and was much intoxicated, verse 36. Septuagint translate, “wine.” Syr. and Arab. “drink.”—Cattle. Hebrew “victims,” which is a term used both for sacred and profane feasts.

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