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 \p Then David and his men moved to the wilderness of Paran.
 
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-\v 2 In the town of Maon there was a very rich man. This man kept his property and livestock in a town nearby that is called Carmel. He had much property and livestock and he owned three thousand sheep and one thousand goats. Carmel is where he sheared his sheep.
+\v 2 In the town of Maon there was a very rich man. This man kept his property and livestock in a town nearby that is called Carmel. He had much property and livestock, and he owned three thousand sheep and one thousand goats. Carmel is where he sheared his sheep.
 \v 3 His name was Nabal; he was a descendant of Caleb. His wife Abigail was a wise and beautiful woman, but Nabal was very cruel and treated people very unkindly.
 
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 \v 7 I heard people say that you are cutting the wool from your sheep. Previously, when your shepherds were among us, we did not harm them. All the time that your shepherds were among us at Camel, we did not steal any sheep from them.
-\v 8 You can ask your servants if this is true, and they will tell you that it is true. We have come here at a time when you are celebrating, so I ask you to please be kind to us and give these men whatever extra food you have, for me, David, and my men to eat.'"
+\v 8 You can ask your servants if this is true, and they will tell you that it is true. We have come here at a time when you are celebrating, so I ask you to please be kind to us and give these men whatever extra food you have for me, David, and my men to eat.'"
 
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 \v 12 Then David's men returned and told him what Nabal had said.
-\v 13 When David heard this, he told his men, "We are going to kill Nabal; fasten your swords!" So he fastened on his sword, and about four hundred men fastened their swords and went with him. There were two hundred of his men who stayed with their supplies.
+\v 13 When David heard this, he told his men, "We are going to kill Nabal; fasten your swords!" So he fastened on his sword, and about four hundred men fastened on their swords and went with him. Two hundred of his men stayed with their supplies.
 
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 \v 16 They protected us during the daytime and during the night. They were like a wall around us to protect us while we were taking care of our sheep.
-\v 17 So now you should think about it and decide what you can do. If you do not do something, terrible things will happen to our master and to all his family. Nabal is an extremely wicked man, so he will not listen to anyone who tries to tell him what to do."
+\v 17 So now you should think about it and decide what you can do. If you do not do something, terrible things will happen to our master and to all of his family. Nabal is an extremely wicked man, so he will not listen to anyone who tries to tell him what to do."
 
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-\v 18 When Abigail heard that, she very quickly gathered two hundred loaves of bread, and also got two leather bags full of wine, the meat from five sheep, a bushel of roasted grain, a hundred packs of raisins, and two hundred packs of dried figs. She put all those things on donkeys.
+\v 18 When Abigail heard that, she very quickly gathered two hundred loaves of bread and also got two leather bags full of wine, the meat from five sheep, a bushel of roasted grain, a hundred packs of raisins, and two hundred packs of dried figs. She put all those things on donkeys.
 \v 19 Then she told her servants, "Go ahead of me. I will follow you." But she did not tell her husband what she was going to do.
 
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-\v 20 Abigail rode on her donkey and came down to the place in the hills where David and his men were staying. Suddenly David and his men met her.
+\v 20 Abigail rode on her donkey and came down to the place in the hills where David and his men were staying. Suddenly, David and his men met her.
 
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 \v 21 David had been saying to his men, "It was useless for us to protect that man and all his possessions here in this wilderness. We did not steal anything that belonged to him, but he has acted badly toward me in return for our good actions toward him.
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-\v 23 When Abigail saw David, she quickly got down from her donkey and bowed before him, with her face touching the ground.
+\v 23 When Abigail saw David, she quickly got down from her donkey and bowed before him with her face touching the ground.
 \v 24 Then she prostrated herself at David's feet and said to him, "Sir, I deserve to be punished for what my husband has done. Please listen to what your servant says to you.
 
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 \v 27 Your servant has brought a gift for my master and for the men who are with you.
-\v 28 Please forgive your servant if I have done anything wrong to you. Yahweh will surely reward my master by allowing many of your descendants to become kings of Israel, because my master is fighting the battles that Yahweh wants you to fight. And I know that throughout all your life you have not done anything wrong.
+\v 28 Please forgive your servant if I have done anything wrong to you. Yahweh will surely reward my master by allowing many of your descendants to become kings of Israel because my master is fighting the battles that Yahweh wants you to fight. And I know that throughout all your life you have not done anything wrong.
 
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 \v 29 Even when those who are trying to kill you pursue you, you are safe because Yahweh your God takes care of you. You will be protected like a bundle that is safely tied up. But your enemies will disappear like stones that are hurled from a sling.
 
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 \v 30 Yahweh has promised to do good things for my master, and he will do what he has promised. And he will cause you to become the ruler of the Israelite people.
-\v 31 The fact that my master has caused innocent people to die and have taken vengeance for himself, my master will not have these matters on his conscience. And when Yahweh does good to you by making you king, then, please, remember your servant."
+\v 31 The fact that my master has caused innocent people to die and has taken vengeance for himself—my master will not have these matters on his conscience. And when Yahweh does good to you by making you king, then please remember your servant."
 
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 \v 32 David replied to Abigail, "I praise Yahweh, the God whom we Israelites worship, because he sent you to talk with me.
-\v 33 I hope today God may help you because you have wisely kept me from killing people today, and from paying back evil for evil.
+\v 33 I hope today God may help you because you have wisely kept me from killing people today and from paying back evil for evil.
 
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 \v 34 Just as surely as Yahweh the God whom we Israelites worship is alive, he has prevented me from harming you. If you had not come quickly to talk to me, neither Nabal nor even one of Nabal's men or boys would be still alive tomorrow morning."
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-\v 36 When Abigail returned to Nabal, he was in his house, having a big celebration like kings have. He was very drunk and feeling very happy. So Abigail did not say anything to him that night about her meeting with David.
+\v 36 When Abigail returned to Nabal, he was in his house having a big celebration like kings have. He was very drunk and feeling very happy. So Abigail did not say anything to him that night about her meeting with David.
 
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 \v 37 The next morning, when he was no longer drunk, she told him everything that had happened when she talked with David. Immediately, he had a stroke and could move no longer.
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 \v 39 After David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, "I praise Yahweh! Nabal insulted me, but Yahweh has shown that I have been right. He has prevented me from doing anything wrong. And he has punished Nabal for the wrong that he did."
-\p Then David sent messengers to Abigail, to ask her if she would become his wife.
+\p Then David sent messengers to Abigail to ask her if she would become his wife.
 \v 40 His servants went to Carmel and said to Abigail, "David sent us to take you to become his wife."
 
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-\v 1 One day some of the people of Ziph town went to Saul while he was at Gibeah, and they said to him, "David is hiding in a cave on the hill of Hakilah, east of the town of Jeshimon."
+\v 1 One day, some of the people of Ziph town went to Saul while he was at Gibeah, and they said to him, "David is hiding in a cave on the hill of Hakilah, east of the town of Jeshimon."
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 \v 2 So Saul chose three thousand of the best Israelite soldiers and went with them to the wilderness of Ziph to search for David.
 
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-\v 6 David went back to where his men were and talked to Ahimelech, who was from the Heth people, and Joab's brother Abishai, whose mother was David's older sister Zeruiah. He asked them, "Who will go with me down into the camp where Saul is?"
+\v 6 David went back to where his men were and talked to Ahimelek, who was from the Heth people, and Joab's brother Abishai, whose mother was David's older sister Zeruiah. He asked them, "Who will go with me down into the camp where Saul is?"
 \p Abishai replied, "I will go with you."
-\v 7 So that night David and Abishai crept into Saul's camp. They saw that Saul was asleep. His spear was stuck in the ground near his head. Saul was asleep in the middle of the camp. Abner and the other soldiers were sleeping around Saul.
+\v 7 So that night David and Abishai crept into Saul's camp. They saw that Saul was asleep in the middle of the camp. His spear was stuck in the ground near his head. Abner and the other soldiers were sleeping around Saul.
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 \v 8 Abishai whispered to David, "Today Yahweh has enabled us to kill your enemy! Allow me to fasten Saul to the ground by thrusting my spear into him. It will be necessary for me to strike him only once. I will not need to strike him twice."
 
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 \p Abner replied "Who are you, waking up the king by calling out to him?"
 
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-\v 15 David replied, "I am sure that you are the greatest man in Israel ! So why did you not guard your master, the king? Someone came into your camp in order to kill your master, the king.
+\v 15 David replied, "I am sure that you are the greatest man in Israel! So why did you not guard your master the king? Someone came into your camp in order to kill your master the king.
 \v 16 You have done a very poor job of guarding Saul. So just as surely as Yahweh is alive, you and your men should be executed! You have not guarded your master whom Yahweh appointed to be the king. Where are the king's spear and the water jug that were close to his head?"
 
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 \v 17 Saul woke up and recognized that it was David's voice. He called out, saying, "My son David, is that your voice?"
-\p David replied, "Yes, your majesty it is my voice."
+\p David replied, "Yes your majesty, it is my voice."
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 \v 18 Then David added, "Sir, why are you pursuing me? I have done nothing wrong!
 
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-\v 21 Then Saul said, "David, my son, I have sinned by trying to kill you. So come back home. Today you have considered my life to be very valuable and so you have not killed me. So I will not try to harm you. I have made a big mistake and have acted foolishly."
+\v 21 Then Saul said, "David my son, I have sinned by trying to kill you. So come back home. Today you have considered my life to be very valuable and so you have not killed me. So I will not try to harm you. I have made a big mistake and have acted foolishly."
 
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 \v 2 So David and his six hundred men left Israel and went to see Maok's son Achish, who was king of the city of Gath in the region of Philistia.
-\v 3 David and his men and their families started to live there in Gath, the city where King Achish lived. David's two wives were with him—Ahinoam from Jezreel, and Nabal's widow Abigail, from Carmel.
+\v 3 David and his men and their families started to live there in Gath, the city where King Achish lived. David's two wives were with him—Ahinoam from Jezreel and Nabal's widow Abigail from Carmel.
 \v 4 When Saul heard that David had run away and was living in Gath, he stopped searching for David.
 
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 \v 8 During that time, David and his men raided the people who lived in the areas where the Geshur, Girzi, and Amalek peoples lived. Those people had lived there from long before. That area extended south to Shur and to the border of Egypt.
-\v 9 Whenever David's men attacked them, they killed all the men and women, and they took all the people's sheep and cattle and donkeys and camels, and even their clothes. Then they would bring those things back home, and David would go to talk to Achish.
+\v 9 Whenever David's men attacked them, they killed all the men and women, and they took all the people's sheep and cattle and donkeys and camels and even their clothes. Then they would bring those things back home, and David would go to talk to Achish.
 
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-\v 10 Each time Achish would ask David, "Where did you go raiding today?" Sometimes David would say that they had gone to the southern part of Judah, and sometimes he would say that they had gone to where the Jerahmeelites lived in the south, or that he had fought against the Kenites who lived in the south.
+\v 10 Each time Achish would ask David, "Where did you go raiding today?" Sometimes David would say that they had gone to the southern part of Judah, and sometimes he would say that they had gone to where the Jerahmeelites lived in the south or that he had fought against the Kenites who lived in the south.
 
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-\v 11 David's men never brought back to Gath any man or woman who was still alive. David thought, "If we do not kill everyone, some of them who are still alive they will go and tell Achish the truth about what we really did." David did that all the time that he and his men lived in the region of Philistia.
+\v 11 David's men never brought back to Gath any man or woman who was still alive. David thought, "If we do not kill everyone, some of them who are still alive will go and tell Achish the truth about what we really did." David did that all the time that he and his men lived in the region of Philistia.
 \v 12 So Achish believed what David told him; he thought, "Because of what David has done, his own people, the Israelites, must now hate him very much. So he will have to stay here and serve me forever."
 
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