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1 Samuel 21:3

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible · John Gill (1697–1771) · Public Domain

Now therefore what is under thine hand?.... Meaning, what food had he in his house?give [me] five [loaves of] bread in mine hand; to take with him, for him and his servants in such a place:or what there is present; or to be found in the tabernacle; if not five loaves, two, or three, or four, or what food soever he had by him.

aumnh "quicquid inveneris", V.

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