And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, Ye have troubled me to make me to stink among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Per´izzites: and I being few in number, they shall gather themselves together against me, and slay me; and I shall be destroyed, I and my house.
For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk: the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up.
Now therefore know and consider what thou wilt do; for evil is determined against our master, and against all his household: for he is such a son of Be´li-al, that a man cannot speak to him.
Now the name of the man was Nabal, and the name of his wife Ab´igail; and she was a woman of good understanding, and of a beautiful countenance: but the man was churlish and evil in his doings; and he was of the house of Caleb.