Catholic Public Domain Version
"And she said to her servants: “Go before me. Behold, I will follow after your back.” But she did not reveal it to her husband, Nabal. "
— 1 Samuel 25:19, Catholic Public Domain Version
“And she said unto her servants, Go on before me; behold, I come after you. But she told not her husband Nabal.”
“And she said unto her young men, Go on before me; behold, I come after you. But she told not her husband Nabal. ”
“She said to her young men, "Go on before me. Behold, I come after you." But she didn't tell her husband, Nabal.”
“and said to her servants,“Go on ahead of me. I will come after you.” But she did not tell her husband Nabal.”
“And she said to her servants: Go before me: behold, I will follow after you: but she told not her husband, Nabal.”
“And she said to her young men, Go on in front of me and I will come after you. But she said nothing to her husband Nabal.”
“And she said unto her servants, Go on before me; behold, I come after you. But she told not her husband Nabal.”
They were a wall to us, as much in the night as in the day, during all the days that we were with them, pasturing the sheep.
For this reason, consider and realize what you should do. For evil has been decided against your husband and against your house. And he is a son of Belial, so that no one is able to speak to him.”
And so Abigail hurried, and she took two hundred loaves, and two vessels of wine, and five cooked sheep, and five measures of cooked grain, and one hundred clusters of dried grapes, and two hundred masses of dried figs, and she set them upon donkeys.
And she said to her servants: “Go before me. Behold, I will follow after your back.” But she did not reveal it to her husband, Nabal.
And when she had climbed on a donkey, and was descending to the base of the mountain, David and his men were descending to meet her. And she met them.
And David said: “Truly, in vain have I preserved all that was his in the wilderness, so that nothing perished out of all that belonged to him. And he has repaid evil to me for good.
May God do these things, by the enemies of David, and may he add these other things, if I leave behind until morning, out of all that belongs to him, anything that urinates against a wall.”