One day Jesse had told his son David, ‘Take these twenty-two litres of roasted grain along with these ten loaves of bread for your brothers and hurry to their camp.
Abigail hurried, taking two hundred loaves of bread, two clay jars of wine, five butchered sheep, thirty-seven litres of roasted grain, one hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of pressed figs, and loaded them on donkeys.
If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him? ’
If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good things to those who ask him.
At mealtime Boaz told her, ‘Come over here and have some bread and dip it in the vinegar sauce.’ So she sat beside the harvesters, and he offered her roasted grain. She ate and was satisfied and had some left over.