"Please, take my blessing that is brought to you, because God has dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough." So he urged him, and he took [it.]

Then Abigail made haste and took two hundred [loaves] of bread, two skins of wine, five sheep already dressed, five seahs of roasted [grain,] one hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and loaded [them] on donkeys.

"And now this present which your maidservant has brought to my lord, let it be given to the young men who follow my lord.

Therefore I thought it necessary to exhort the brethren to go to you ahead of time, and prepare your generous gift beforehand, which [you had] previously promised, that it may be ready as [a matter of] generosity and not as a grudging obligation.

For the earth which drinks in the rain that often comes upon it, and bears herbs useful for those by whom it is cultivated, receives blessing from God;

not returning evil for evil or reviling for reviling, but on the contrary blessing, knowing that you were called to this, that you may inherit a blessing.