And they blessed Rebekah, and said to her, You are our sister, may you be the mother of thousands of millions, and let your descendents possess the gate of those who hate them.
And he wrote in the king Ahasuerus’ name, and sealed it with the king’s ring, and sent letters by messengers on horseback, and riders on mules, camels, and young Arabian camels:
So the messengers that rode on mules and camels went out, being hastened and pressed on by the king’s commandment. And the decree was given at Shushan the palace.
Have they not sped? have they not divided the prey; to every man a damsel or two; to Sisera a prey of different colors, a prey of different colors of needlework, of different colors of needlework on both sides, suitable for the necks of those who take the spoil?
And Abigail hasted, and arose, and rode upon a donkey, with five damsels of hers that went after her; and she went after the messengers of David, and became his wife.
And David struck them from the twilight even until the evening of the next day: and there escaped not a man of them, except four hundred young men, which rode upon camels, and fled.