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17 Jesse said to his son David, “Please take your brothers an ephah[a] of this roasted grain and these ten loaves of bread. Deliver them quickly to your brothers in the camp. 18 And here, take these ten wedges of cheese to their unit commander. Find out how your brothers are doing and bring back some sign that they are okay. 19 They are with Saul and all the Israelite troops fighting the Philistines in the Elah Valley.”

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  1. 1 Samuel 17:17 One ephah is approximately twenty quarts.

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