8 Question your servants, and they will tell you. Now therefore, may your servants find favor in your eyes. For we have arrived on a good day. Whatever your hand will find, give it to your servants and to your son David.'
9 And when the servants of David had arrived, they spoke to Nabal all these words in the name of David. And then they were silent.
10 But Nabal, responding to the servants of David, said: 'Who is David? And who is the son of Jesse? Today, servants who are fleeing from their lords are increasing.
11 Therefore, shall I take my bread, and my water, and the meat of the cattle that I have slain for my shearers, and give it to men, when I do not know where they are from?'
12 And so the servants of David traveled back along their way. And returning, they went and reported to him all the words that he had said.
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