New American Bible, Revised Edition

1 Samuel 25:17-20 New American Bible, Revised Edition (NABRE)

17. Now, see what you can do, for you must realize that otherwise disaster is in store for our master and for his whole house. He is such a scoundrel that no one can talk to him.”

18. Abigail quickly got together two hundred loaves, two skins of wine, five dressed sheep, five seahs of roasted grain, a hundred cakes of pressed raisins, and two hundred cakes of pressed figs, and loaded them on donkeys.

19. She then said to her servants, “Go on ahead; I will follow you.” But to her husband Nabal she said nothing.

20. Hidden by the mountain, she came down riding on a donkey, as David and his men were coming down from the opposite direction. When she met them,